Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial thrust, "Bigger and Better Government Spending," and Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need now is the fighting slogan, "Out of the Depression by Christmas...
...That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage, loyalty, good humor, devotion to duty and dexterity with any item of hospital apparatus from an ether mask to a bedpan...
...swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments merely on the mechanics of the dramatist. The case against him was complete when O'Casey read, with devasting humor, a bit of insipid dialogue from a current London social comedy...
...play Moliere vents his spleen upon the medical profession with pungent humor. Prominent among the features promises to be a song by a quack physician, sung by Eli Boynton '35. Four doctors will trip a ballet to music by Lulli, an exhibition of Terpsichorean art in which Louis XIV himself took part in the original performance...
There is a deal of humor, and some pseudo-humor. Chevaller at least has not his straw hat. Some of the dancing is good. Some of the photography is not so good. The supporting cast is very fine...