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...rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill's surviving are like the chances of an embryo oyster. Legislative name for this survival-of-the-fittest is "Gag Rule...
Last week Democrats had to swallow their own words to change this parliamentary device. The gag rule against which Democratic voices had thundered ever since 1925 was the House regulation that, unless the Rules Committee gave a bill a place upon the calendar, the measure could be brought out for a vote only by petition of a majority (218 members) of the House. In 1931 the Democrats had their day. With a majority in the House for the first time in a dozen years, they changed the rule to allow one-third (145 members) of the House by petition...
...wisely amusing and genuinely original comedies of the year, an up-to-date sporting print with bright colors and clear lines. Difficult to analyze and impossible to imitate, the hallmark of Director Capra's style is his way of turning what for an other director would be a commonplace "gag"' into a vital and important incident. In Broadway Bill, he makes a shot of the Higgins family lifting their soup spoons with terrifying regularity show exactly why Dan Brooks abhors their company. He makes a brilliant thumbnail caricature of Dan's amazing friend. Colonel Pettigrew, out of a sequence...
...producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes...
...those with such an appetite for romance that they gag at no improbability, Author Gorman's latest concoction will be a toothsome dish. More finicky gourmets will rise before Suzy is all swallowed. A companion piece to Jonathan Bishop (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933), this tale of a golden-hearted tart is set against the more modern background...