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Young As You Feel (Fox) is a typical Will Rogers cinema. Waggishly embarrassed, he undertakes to disport himself in a silk-hat and long-tailed coat, criticize second rate statuary, attend night clubs, horse-races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will...
...customs observed by Dr. Powdermaker: a husband is forbidden to speak to his mother-in-law, mention her in public, enter a room which she occupies. Having no conception of time the New Irishmen's night life is governed solely by the moon. On bright nights they carouse mightily, disport themselves happily. Particularly happy are they when someone dies or is born when the moon is full. Such events are celebrated with feasts which frequently get out of control and last for a month...
Each year The Lambs present their public Gambols, disport themselves for the financial benefit of the club. The Lambs might see fit to make additional use of their "$44,000,000 worth of talent," Shepherd Royle observed, to relieve their present economic burden; in other words, perhaps, give a benefit...
...away for the summer and abandoned the neo-Andalusian splendor of the Theatre Guild's playhouse, the Bright Young People who occasionally perform under the Guild's aegis when a production of doubtful dignity is to be put on?e.g., Red Rust (TIME, Dec. 30)?set out to disport themselves in a blithesome intimate revue. Guild subscription members flocked to see, recalling that it was the first Garrick Gaieties (1925) which uncovered Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Lorenz Hart ("Manhattan," "Sentimental Me," "April Fool"), Funnymen Romney Brent and Sterling Holloway, and the young ladies now individually famed as Libby...
This accomplished, Mr. Johnson turned about and, over his shoulder as it were, like a fond father done scolding obstreperous sons, announced that he was giving his employes a golf course where, for trivial fees, they could disport themselves after working hours. Said he: "If golf is good for the tired businessman it is good for the tired factory worker, and there is no reason why the factory worker should not have his share of the good things of life...