Word: comical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "Iolanthe" will be given in the Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe, at 8 o'clock on the evening of Friday, December 7, by the Radcliffe Choral Society, assisted by members of the University Glee Club. Subsequent performances will be given on Saturday, December 8, at 2.30 and at 8 o'clock. Three scholarships are given every year by the Radcliffe Choral Society from the money made on their annual productions, in which members of the University regularly assist...
...trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject. If he had, he probable wouldn't have been a lexicographer. True sense of humor goes as far beyond this definition as solid geometry beyond plain arithmetic. It consists not only in perceiving the comic, but in searching for it, and at times...
Among the other pictures on the program is "With the Army in Mexico," a film taken by a special representative of the Government. The comic reels include "Mutt and Jeff in the Trenches" and "Mutt and Jeff in the National Guard." Each is a series of animated cartoons by Bud Fisher...
Among the other pictures to be shown is "With the American Army in Mexico," a film taken by a special representative of the Government. It reveals the life of the American troops on the border. The comic films are "Mutt and Jeff in the Trenches" and "Mutt and Jeff in the National Guard," a series of animated cartoons by Bud Fisher...
...words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers. The most notable quality of this sparkling effort is its remarkable loquacity. It is one of those characteristically Gallio dramas in which after a full half-hour of rapid dialogue the heroine remarks to the hero: "Alors, mon ami, causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably...