Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuels in a repertoire of new songs and original monologue is the outstanding feature of the widely varied bill at Keith's this week. Miss Samuels' rare humor coupled with her irrepressible pep more than holds up her position as headliner. It is this star's first appearence in Boston vaudeville after an absence of several years. She was exceptionally well received and gave several encores...
...heiress who wins, as a barmaid, the love of a youth too bashful to court her in her proper surroundings possesses a curious perennial freshness. Granted that some of the stage devices seem a bit clumsy and outworn to the present generation of theatre-goers, the underlying humor of the play has as wide an appeal today as it did in the reign of George the Second. It is this fact, together with its characterization and wittiness of line, which has kept "She Stoops to Conquer" on the boards for a hundred and forty years...
...which, strange to say, he is really guilty); with them comes a third pal, the unknown and unknowing Spoofy, a victim of gas aphasia with a penchant for "lifting". From this combination, aided by convenient coincidences, innumerable droll situations arise, genuinely comic, of the type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned his laughs. The play moves amiably from situation to situation, with little suspense except in the person of the hapless Spoofy, whose mystery is satisfactorily solved...
...mimics Easterners, Westerners, farmers, bankers, professors, and yes, college students by a simple change of hats. The holdup man who wears a cap during his office hours, passes through crowded streets unrecognized and undisturbed at other times when his pseudo-respectability is set off by a stiff derby-hat. Humor consists largely in wearing a hat that is too large or too small. "Movie" patrons have learned to recognize Bill Hart and Charlie Chaplin by their hats. Election to political office carries with it the prerogative of a silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk...
...fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing, and at some places where much space is used in talking about the grim humor if life, a somewhat boring result is unfortunately obtained. But the author is young, and we are inclined to doubt if any young person has a true comprehension of irony. There must be such a thing because we hear of it so often, but as yet we don't know...