Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honeymoon Lane (Paramount) owes its existence almost exclusively to Funnyman Eddie Dowling. He wrote it, played it as a musical comedy for 52 weeks, turned it into a cinema leaving out all the songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival...
Other famed or inveterate air travelers: William Howard Gannett, 77, of Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
That venerable columnist, Arthur Brisbane, is alleged to have accused Funnyman Will Rogers with being educated at Eton and Oxford. I am a longtime admirer of Rogers and have always suspected that he was not as "dumb" as he attempted to act. Is Brisbane's accusation true...
...years ago, famed Funnyman Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty'') Arbuckle was tried for manslaughter after being found in a rumpled hotel room with the corpse of an obscure cinemactress named Virginia Rappe. He was acquitted. But, because many suspicious persons thought he might have caused the death of Cinemactress Rappe by attacking her, perhaps with a beer bottle, no cinema producers dared antagonize their audiences by hiring Funnyman Arbuckle. Funnyman Arbuckle tried a vaudeville tour, a Hollywood nightclub. When the nightclub failed, he got a job writing "gags" for Mack Sennett, has more recently, as "William Goodrich," been an assistant director...
Last March Photoplay (monthly) printed an article about Funnyman Arbuckle called "Just Let Me Work," quoted the chief Arbuckle ambition: "I want to go back to the screen. I think I can entertain and gladden the people. . . ." Editor James R. Quirk of Photoplay gave a radio talk, asked his listeners whether they thought Funnyman Arbuckle should be permitted to return to the screen under his own name. Last week, in the July Photoplay James R. Quirk gave the answer. He had received 3,000 letters from people who thought Arbuckle should be permitted to resume cinemacting; among the letter-writers...