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...Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when walking down a street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Taking possession of the premises he settles down for the night in Mrs. Wetherby's guest bedroom. She tries to frighten him by lending him a pair of gargantuan pajamas which, she says, her husband has discarded as too small. In the picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Author Macaulay's best or funniest book, but pleasant entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/23/1937 | See Source »

...then last Saturday in New York President Benchley of the Lampoon was handed the sacred object by a CRIMSON editor who felt like those other CRIMSON men when they lent Lampy the punchbowl. Unfortunately this funniest of the funnymen let the Ibis slip through his fingers and arrived once more in Cambridge with nothing but an old towel receptacle in place of his beloved Ibis. And now once more the Ibis has come to life and posed for photographers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

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