Word: monolog
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Shine (Columbia). For many years in vaudeville and musical shows Joe Cook has been putting over his personal kind of comedy. In this version of an old Broadway revue, now arranged without music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill monolog, tells about his farm in Texas, introduces a new act about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification...
...more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...
...detail. When the base-ship went back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City...