The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1933, Page 8

“You've di e nothing all week but study old joke books, and I'll bet you aren’t even called on to make a speech.” WAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN A‘DRY” STATE/ FOSSKS OF SWIMMING SERPENTS, FROM 30 To GO FEET (N LENGTH, HAVE BEEN FOUND Pie-Throwing Gives Way to a Subtler Brand of Comedy The public today demands a much wilder kind of comedy on the screen and the stage than it did ten years ago, according to Eddie Cline, who| 4s known in Hollywood as an author- ity on comedy entertainment from his experience of the last fifteen years s one of the most successful comedy directors of the screen. The madcap antics of the Four Marx Brothers, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor dominate the public mind when comedy is the subject of discus- sion, Cline believes, The unbelievable, scatter-brained exploits of these comedians answer @ recently awakened sense of the ridiculous latent in every human be- ing, no matter how serious or dra- matic his nature may be. Cline says that only in the past ten years has this side of mass human nature been ~ given a chance to exercise itself. “This state of the public's mind that makes staid, restrained men and women laugh with more real enjoy- ment than they have known before at Wheeler and Woolsey, the Marxes, Durante and Cantor has developed from the war and the hysteria and tragedy that dominated the world for so long since then,” Cline delivered his opinion. “Before 1920, when entertainers of the stage and the screen first began to sense the change that had taken Place, any one of these comedians would have fallen flat.” Cline recently completed the di- rection on his second Wheeler-Wool- sey feature, “So This Is Africa!” a travesty produced by Columbia Stu- dios on the Tarzan pictures. Wheeler and Woolsey head a huge cast that includes Raquel Torres, Henry Ar- metta and many others. Norman Krasna, author of the successful stage Play “Louder Please,” wrote the screen Play. It is showing tonight at the Capitol Theatre. POR THE UNITEO STATES WAS MADE LAST WINTER / 11066 ° BELOW ZERO..6 | AT THE MOVIES | ‘Frisco Jenny’ Stars Ruth Chatterton as Head of Vice Element Cast in thet mould of the pictures which have been Ruth Chatterton’s most conspicuous successes, and have made her a name to conjure with wherever lovers of fine acting are as- sembled, “Frisco Jenny,” her latest First National production, coming to the Paramount Theatre today, ranks as her outstanding work to date. “Frisco Jenny” is the story of a woman who ruled the vice element of a city. The sweep of the drama takes it across a quarter of a century of human life. Opening on the eve of the Great Fire that laid San Fran- cisco waste in 1906—the days when the Barbary Coast flourished in all its lawlessness—the picture traces the colorful career of a daughter of the ; old underworld as it luridly weaves it- self through the changing life of the New San Francisco to the moment of supreme sacrifice that crowns the story. All the production resources of Warner Brothers-First National have been marshalled to re-create the San Francisco of those early days. The accuracy of the life and atmosphere of the period is amply vouched for by the fact that Wilson Mizner is one of the authors of the drama, Few living writers know their old San Francisco as Mizner knows it and many of the touches with which he has embellish- ed the opening scenes of “Frisco Jen- ny” are almost autobiographical in their fidelity. The scenes of the earthquake and the subsequent fire which completed the destruction of the city by the Golden Gate have been pronounced by | ———- experts to be marvels of realism and catastrophic power. Old Chinatown lives again in all its sinister secrecy, with its miles of catcomb-like pass- ages and dwellings. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933 THE GUMPS— PLEASE KEEP OUT 1 WOULDN'T GOTO THE PHONE = | WOULDN'T SPEAK ‘TO HIM = WELL, MOTHER = ORE WHA) ot Bin TO CALL ON, US - AND IF HE'S ANGRY | CAN'T HELP ITe WES JUST LIKE A SPOILED CHILO WHO WANTS = \F HE CAN'T GET IT HE WANTS lv ALL THE MORE — ENE BEEN ‘TOO CORDIAL Moet SAKE CS WELCOME, MAS THE BOR AWHILE EE HOW WE LIKES IT= SPRING IS IN THE AIR— YE YOU'RE GOING To LEAD LITTLE MILLIE TO THE ALTAR AS A JUNE GASOLINE ALLEY— BARTER AND EXCHANGE Wy HELLO, LORA! | HAO NO IDEA | WAS COMING TO NOUR OFFICE. 1 HAD A PHONE CALL GINNING ONLY THE BUILOING ANID ROOM "M SORRY, MR. 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