Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
...current genial heir to Britain's throne to make him into a musical comedy. Accordingly the flashback method was dragged out, dusted off, and from a modern prolog the story shifted to a tale of Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories on the sex of the sardine; was aided ably by Eric Blore, an ass, very bally. The indomitable Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (who first appeared some 50 years...
While at Eton, Carroll regularly amused his brothers and sisters at home by writing and illustrating stories and poems, which he sent to them in the form of a magazine. An interesting side light on Carroll's sense of humor is given by the signatures under each drawing, for he signed his crude renderings with the names of great artists, such as Rembrandt, and Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...itself and its stock of puppet actors and actresses around in Ford trucks, cruising from place to place in the New England states, giving entertainments at summer colonies. Performances similar in tone and appearance to Tony Sarg's Marionettes are given with a series of scenes of variety and humor. Miniature sketches of a full orchestra, with a nine inch Koussevitsky conducting, a tiny Paderewski playing a grand piano less than a foot above the floor, and the Old Testament, provide the student entertainers with their material...
...seen the beginning of a series of public initiations to an old and distinguished society which has long flourished in Harvard College the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770. If the spectacle afforded by these exhibitions is to be regarded as typical of the organization's attitude and sense of humor then one can only sigh for the return of a more puritanical regime. That these displays have any claim to respectability there can be no question: they are disgusting, vulgar,--they are nauseating. They only excuse for their presence is the laughter which they might evoke. And this fall...