Word: comical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Judged merely as a work of dramatic and comic art, the "Hypochonder" ranks with the few best plays that the Verein has produced. The feminine roles will be taken by the ladies of the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft, and an orchestra composoed of sixteen members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will furnish music...
...with the exception of Sam Dody's dancing and the few songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often descends into rough-house which almost becomes vulgarity...
...undergraduates-(a prize of $50.) For a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in John Jay Chapman's "Greek Genius and Other Essays," beginning on page 37 with the words, "The next scene is frankly comic," and ending with the chapter...
...Lampoon, the College comic paper, was founded in 1876. Its aim is to represent the humorous side of college life. The Lampoon is published fortnightly during the college year at the Lampoon Building on Bow street. Contributors of humorous sketches, jokes, or comic articles become eligible for election to the literary board. The business editors are elected after a competition...
...today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...