Word: humor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Barrymore refuses to let all this give anybody the creeps. Seldom offstage, and extremely vocal, blunt and racy when on, she plays her role with a huge gusto and humor that never degenerate into caricature. The same cannot be said of Playwright Langley's handling of his plot...
...London Daily Mail, boomed "Preposterous!" He admitted paying her $250,000 in six years to handle his relations with Adolf Hitler and other European bigwigs, naively explaining: "I expected her to live like a queen." But when asked if she was his ambassador, prognathous Rothermere replied with heavy humor: "I am not a sovereign state...
...goings-on involve the antic humor of dead Uncle Ambrose, who was so crooked, says one of the brand-new gags, he had to be screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer...
...well-known comedian originated his inimitable bathroom humor in 1928 in a show called "Hold Everything," and with the exception of a straight part in the motion picture "Zaza" he has stuck to it ever since...
...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...