Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Failing to obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
...this was written by Hatcher Hughes, last year's winner of the Pulitzer play prize with Hell-Bent for Heaven. Mr. Hughes spends vacations among these Southerners. It seemed in this play that he had glorified them just a trifle. Their humor is a bit too sharp, their characters a bit intensified. Yet the novelty, the philosophy and the intelligence of the piece makes it better than most. It is endowed with an uneven performance...
...idea is gaining favor. Again the old-fashioned melodrama of the Spanish señorita, the laborer lover, the angry Spanish suitor is prepared. Its general age and weight are ridiculed. Eleanor Boardman, Harrison Ford and others are involved. Such productions are the cinema's saving sense of humor...
...fashions," announced the Fairchild Fashions Publications, last week, "have emerged from the domain of humor." They have, indeed, entered the domain of sport. Every year to Palm Beach go individuals who stare at neckties, note the shape of bathing suits, write home about the length of knickers, the color of hosiery. They are the "beachcombers" of toggery...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...