Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...efforts, will be presented. Mr. Hoyt does not claim it as a comedy, a farce, or an opera. He only announces it in his usual modest way: "A musical entertainment." But it is said to be more full of musical gems than an opera, dressier than a society play, funnier than a farce, spicier than the varieties, more unique than a specialty show, as rich in grace and beauty as a fancy dress ball, and as replete with good acting as the legitimate. The cast is the largest and strongest Mr. Hoyt has ever organized and embraces many prominent people...
Chief of caricaturists is A. B. Frost. Full of humor himself, he catches the idea of the author and always succeeds in making the situation a little funnier than the author had conceived it. Besides his caricatures, his sketches of Negro and camp life are not excelled by any in sincerity and genuineness...
...Sketches," the second is the better. It is daintily done withal and a very pretty thing. The first is not so pleasing in its subject. but it is not bad. The second, third and fourth "Kodaks" are the best. The fifth is fair, but the scene was so much funnier than the description that it falls a little flat. The sixth is also fair...
...many beauties of the score received an excellent interpretation from the members of this very capable company. Marion Manola, Annie Meyers, DeWolf Hopper and Eugene Oudin were especially satisfactory. The duet of Marion Manola and Eugene Oudin, "Let us Suppose," received a very enthusiastic encore. DeWolf Hopper was funnier than ever. His bit of stage business with Jeff do Angelis in the first scene of the opera was very amusing...