Word: humored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Daly takes his part wonderfully well. The Master, a man of clay, caustic humor, who dominates others with his materialistic but liberal ideas, is before us in the life. When he is involved in the wheels of his own scheme of existence, it is with a feeling almost of loss that we find the Master dominated, after all, by his emotions...
...curtain-raiser gives the Workshop producing forces a good opportunity to display their abilities. In the long play Miss Clugston has depicted life in a Southern Indiana town. The play is replete with local color and the author has filled the three acts with much humor...
...great annoyance to readers of library books is to find margins and type itself covered with humorous inscriptions. There seems to be a species of inexpensive humor which delights in ornamenting books that other men must use. Perhaps these significant underlinings, obliterations and witty marginal notes are put down in a spirit of self-exploitation. If so, the budding jokers would serve their own ends better by accompanying each brilliant jest with their signature...
...play is very thin, relying for its success on clever lines, some rather hasty characterization, a supply of aged "laugh-getters" in business, and the adept handling of a well-schooled cast. Miss Tempest's delightful sense of humor, and unfailing ability to squeeze every drop of comedy out of a situation or line livens much that would be otherwise drearily dull. Mr. Browne is a sincere, politely humorous hero, and unheard of as it is for a stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker...
...Gallishaw's is not one of the great books of the war. It lacks the skill of the professional writer, the humor and insight of the trained observer, which we find in "The First Hundred Thousand." It is however, a thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted...