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...that's the way Ed Wynn is. He'll say some of his funniest lines in his most hysterical manner, yet he'll be thinking serious thought all the while, "Hooray For What?" his new show, now playing at the Colonial, is crammed full of delicious gags. Nevertheless, every funny line is an effective jab against war. Ed, as Chuckles, the native inventor of strange gases is always wondering what it's all about. "I hear they found a Spanish soldier in the Spanish army," he shricks. "This antuggling must be stopped...
There will be an award of one dollar made each week for the funniest limerick sent in that week. Once a week the winning limerick will be printed...
...Ritz Brothers, they haven't added any new stuff. Which is not to say they are declining but simply that they haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor...
...funniest scenes in the current Broadway hit, Room Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...Stinko! That's what he is. Always drunk. Funniest thing you ever did see to see him fall down the steps of his house! Look at his poor...