Word: drollness
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...whose hair is red and long, belongs to that school of comedians originated by the late, droll Raymond Hitchcock. He takes personal charge of the proceedings, tells the audience what is going on backstage and when a joke is too feeble to put itself across. Mr. Fay has an assistant who starts shouting, "Eh? Eh?" This is not very funny...
...clock Saturday night over Station WBZ for a 15-minute pogrom of humorous jokes and music. C. J. Swan, president of the Boston Advertising Club, will be the master of ceremonies, and C. T. (Jerry) Smith, Jr., young Boston lawyer, will tell very many of his droll stories in his own way. Two trios and one quarto, all composed of ten Harvard undergraduates, will sing over...
...Late Christopher Bean"--Henry Miller, 43rd Street E.--Pauline Lord is most diverting in this long-running droll comedy in which a New England family suddenly becomes aware of art in a mad scramble for money...
...will not be very much surprised by Playwright Davis' solution of the Langdons' situation, but Actress Wood's full-blown charm, tinged with a happy trace of quiet amusement at the part she is playing, should please. Hugh O'Connell, the droll one who cracked Indian nuts throughout Once in a Lifetime, demonstrates first-rate ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter...
Somewhat more slowly than sauerkraut and Wagnerian music, the dachshund has come back into favor. From last year's high of 453, the American Kennel Club's dachshund registration has now leaped to some 2,200. The dog's droll appearance and manners, its intelligence, loyalty and hardiness have won it friends. Some famed dachs-owners: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Otto Kahn, Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, Katharine Cornell, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Tauber, Dorothy Parker...