Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annexation. The bugaboo of Annexation has lost its political potency in Canada and in its place has been raised a cry against the "Americanization" of the Dominion. ''Americanization" runs from U. S. bathtubs to U. S. comic strips, each item of which is at one time or another anathematized in the Canadian press, pulpit and political forum...
...point of impertinence, sarcastic far beyond the limits of taste. That the examinations in English 72 and 32 are primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty does well to point out, but to indulge in witless and banal personalities at the expense of a distinguished and wholly charming instructor is a procedure which will not recommend itself to the judicious...
...Harding '30 at the piano and otherwise supplied numerous comic touches and deserves whatever laurels are awarded the leading spirit. No, wait a minute those laurels will have to be divided with Marshall Stearns '30 whose broad portrayal of the heroine's mother was an equally bright piece of work. W. W. Ryan '30 found that filling the shoes of the late lamented Messrs. Wilson and Melcher was no easy job. In the face of an insurmountable handicap he did a creditable...
Music in May. All the traditions of the once extremely popular comic opera are fulfilled in this importation from Vienna. There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
Author Edgar Wallace's reputation for speed, no comic myth, follows logically enough upon prolific production. Last year he had six successes on the London stage, and in New York The Sign of the Leopard. In the spring, when only four of his plays were running simultaneously, he gave a banquet at the Savoy for his theatrical employes, and his guests numbered 590. Not content with writing the plays and entertaining the players, he has latterly become his own producer and designer of scenes-all this being a development of the last three years. Readers of the morning papers...