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Word: humor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the woman has a fortune, approves, and very soon falls in love with her sister. By much amusing stratagy the two men meet the ladies and are later able to save them from a gang of thieves. The chief merits of the comedy are the quality of the humor and the cleverness and individuality of the characterization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. U. REVIVAL TAKES BOARDS | 3/12/1915 | See Source »

Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give a reading in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. His subject will be Irish wit, humor and eloquence in English and in the brogue. The doors will be closed promptly at five minutes after nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Copeland on Irish Wit | 2/24/1915 | See Source »

...weeks under the direction of Mr. August Vatter, who has coached the Verein plays for several years. "Die Journalisten" is a comedy of newspaper life in Germany of fifty years ago. The piece gives the true spirit of German life and has a serious undercurrent beneath the subtle humor that pervades it. It has been put on in Germany with much success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER COMEDY IN SPOTLIGHT | 12/14/1914 | See Source »

...Verein productions for several years. The play is a comedy of newspaper life in Germany of fifty years ago and represents the struggle of two political parties, each supported by a newspaper. The piece gives the true spirit of German life and has a serious undercurrent beneath the subtle humor that pervades it. It has been put on in Germany with much success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMEDY OF NEWSPAPER LIFE | 11/30/1914 | See Source »

...selected the final personnel for it thirteenth production to be given in Brattle Hall on December 8 and 10 and in Copley Hall, Boston, on December 11. The play, "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" by Miss Winifred Hawkridge, a special student at Radcliffe, makes a varied appeal both to the humor and sympathy of the audience. It deals with the tribulations of a New York journalist who "had a wife and couldn't keep her"--at least not to his satisfaction, amid the distractions and extravagances of city life. The minor characters of the comedy are fresh and well-drawn, particularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESPIANS FOR CLUB'S PLAY | 11/27/1914 | See Source »

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