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...screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...
Regardless of the Lampoon's idea of "success," anyone who can whoop up the front pages of "Life," "Look," and "Pic," anyone who can make a publicity photo curl up and blush like she can must be a success at something. The question is, at what...
...custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene makes one wonder whether real movie comedy didn't die with the advent of the talkies...
...about 8?) bought pleasant conveyance for travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats to Manhattan outers were the Seine fly boats to Parisians...
Anent the British transatlantic plane Mercury [TIME, Aug. 8], is '"piggy-back," or "pic-a-back," or "pickaback" correct...