Word: comically
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...Savage, my manager then, merely laughed and told me not to mind the audience. Immediately afterwards, I was entered in comic roles. That is the reason why I am now playing in musical comedies and not in dramatic performances...
Strategem. A comic touch was added by the fact that the mercenaries "mined" the river elaborately with "large dark objects" which were later declared to be not real mines but dummies intended to intimidate the credulous...
...Lady Isabel, who runs away with the mustached and booted villain and comes to no good end in Paris. Miss Blair is more often associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill, having created more of his heroines than any other actress. She shows in East Lynne a comic talent which peeped but timidly from behind the truth-stained characters of this greatest dramatist...
...Once", continued Mr. Lupino, in relating some of the comic aspects of his stormy theatrical career. "I played the part of a lobster in a fairy story. I was only a child then, but, when I reached the age of 17 or 18, I played in a pantomine theatre where I impersonated successively the giants baby; a donkey, which was not difficult; and a little dove. When I once entered an acrobatic troupe. I received only $2 a week and 'food found'. Needless to say, every one found it except...
...Hoffman girls," but there the interview halted for Mrs. Lupino had cast a warning glance in the direction of the comic Mr. Lupino, and thereby stopped any disclosure of further interesting facts...