Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party that Alice goes to in last year's gown with her brother in the rain. There is something pathetic and yet faintly comic about her poor little deceptions and her bright efforts to make a go of it. And the whole business is done with restraint. The brother's clothes are just a little off without being ridiculous; his semi-hick manner of dancing is funny without being farce. When Alice is snubbed she is gently snubbed...
...Lampoon can't claim to be the oldest publication at Harvard; but it is the oldest comic in America. It takes pride in being the forefather of Life, and in having retained during its half-century of existence a flavor and tradition of its own. The best way to get some idea of the Lampoon background is to visit the building on Mount Auburn Street. Walk in the side door and inspect the floor, the Dutch tiled walls, the pictures and drawings, the bound volumes of old copies of Punch, Life, and the Lampoon. Members of the board are glad...
...bored with the ubiquitousness of such U. S. personages as John D. Rockefeller and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that they flee on a world tour, this "musical holiday" has no less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle...
Mary Young, long a favorite with Boston audiences, scored a triumphant return to the local boards in the Friday opening of "Post Road", the Wilbur Steele-Norma Mitchell comic mystery which enjoyed a seven months New York run last season. First night attention centered largely on Miss Young's performance which was invested with a good amount of her gracious charm and gentle humor...
...comic strip page, above "Moon Mullins," "Reg'lar Fellers," "the Gumps" and "Mutt & Jeff," the Herald-Dispatch ran in Annie's place a big black banner: DELETED! FOR VIOLATION OF READER TRUST...