Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dumb show of the "Etiquette" song. W. D. Robbins '08 as "Angela" was a geuine impersonation. His gestures were few and natural, and his singing and dancing was at all times graceful and simple. The "Mrs. Butterworth of C. G. Osborne '07 was a caricature, but one of the funniest caricatures ever seen on the Pudding stage. It was not a figure one had ever seen, but a figure one would not be at all surprised to see. His song, "I'm a hustling, bustling woman," with the accompanying dance, was extraordinary without being mortifying. Osborne found it as difficult...
...funniest thing in the paper, however, is the evidence of the desire to be considered "wicked," presented in the seeming suppression of a drawing under the black ink smudge on the front page. This illustration is peculiarly fetching when seen on a news stand, and is such a satisfactory solution of the front-page problem that it seems strange it has not been used oftener...
...Holmes '02, as "Antonio," the hero and lover of the play, takes the principal part with great success. As an enterprising lower and brave swordsman his earnestness of manner is very natural and pleasing. The part of "Bustopha," one of the funniest of Fletcher's creations, is taken by J. G. Brackett '01 in an exceptionally entertaining manner. In the female roles, W. C. Arensberg '00 makes a serious and charming "Ismenia." Femininity--a somewhat impossible trait perhaps--is slightly lacking in the other female characters...