Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting of Cyril Maude. The marital tragedy of a kindly, humorous and thoroughly ineffectual man, whose motives are constantly misunderstood by a shrewish wife. The best part of" the book is left out because of the alleged superior dramatic effectiveness of melodramatic incident, and the episodes featuring the comic servants High Jinks and Low Jinks are underplayed, but a sustained interest and suspense is maintained nevertheless. A competent caste helps to revive enthusiasm for the dramatic version of last year's literary sensation...
Weinstein, who much resumbles one of Ding's cartoons of a crazy anarchist, is actually an amiable, talented, and witty Jewish revolutionary. He was one of Ludwig C. A. K. Marten's ablest assistants during the comic career of the Soviet "Embassy" in New York two years ago, and both he and his chief left America together under the impression that they had been deported. The Department of Labor subsequently denied that the deportation order had been given, and blamed the New York Legislature's Lusk Committee, "which had no authority." This affords the loophole through which...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth pursues a drawing-room hero ideal and finds his mission in the movies strictly comic...
...nation, state and city, all put together. The financial and business pages are vastly more elaborate than political and governmental news. The theatres, and other so-called amusement interests, are also accorded more attention than the affairs of the country. Many newspapers give more space by far to comic pictures that introduce the same characters in unending series than they give to all the doings of all governments, foreign and domestic. This is not remarked by way of finding fault with the newspapers. It is intended rather to help the reader understand how it happens that public opinion, in relation...
...recreation of Purcell's instrumentation, such as may be determined from a study of the few scraps that remain of orchestra scores of that remote composer's other works. Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest and j oiliest of companions, who gives huge laughter to comic tales and sits like a great paladin to watch a game of cards. The metropolis is to have another symphony orchestra. The conductor will be Mr. Stransky. The organization will be on a democratic, coop- erative basis. It is this last phase which arouses the human heart. Certainly democracy...