Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete series of humorous little books and comic songs, written by an author whose identity has never been found out, was illustrated by George Cruikshank; this is now being shown, as is the illustrated copy of Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", written in simplified language especially for the use of children...
Ladies of the Jury. What theatregoer with a nose for situations would not tingle at the comic possibilities of women doing jury duty? In the first act of this play, in which a murder trial begins, Mrs. Fiske is to be observed as a lorgnetted, matronly juror...
...valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn at legitimate dramatics. The brilliant career of a captivating person might thus have tapered away into...
...most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle in the popular estimate to the development of those attributes that make the "mixer...
These sorry sayings and many akin could be heard any night last week on Broadway. They were occasioned by the comic opera Sweethearts, first in a series of Victor Herbert revivals...