Word: humor
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...