Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture has pace, not slowing up for the customary love interest, and the four year long football career of two young men is shown with considerable accuracy and humor. Although Lew Ayres and William Bakewell fall a little short in portraying dashing half-backs, the presence of Frank Carideo and the "Four Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown...
...Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
...Left Bank is saved from banality by fine, quiet performances by Katherine Alexander as Claire and Donald MacDonald as Waldo. For humor the play depends on 1) the pseudo-Gallic antics of the hotel servant (Alfred A. Hesse); 2) inconvenient plumbing; 3) the wallpaper...
...praise, however, to May Robson, who rides roughshod over the industrial leaders of the nation, working her will in national crises. Irascible, domineering as she appears, it is impossible to dislike her because of her gruff good-humor, and her submerged maternal affection, which intermittently breaks through her hardness, and prevents the characterization from degenerating into a mechanical personification of worldly greed...
...piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged, ap- pealing as Jess Oakroyd. Valerie Taylor (Peter Ibbetson, Petticoat Influence) does a good job as gallant, eager Miss Trant. Hugh Sinclair plays Inigo Jollifant languidly in soprano. Sample humor: "Oh, you have a nasty mind; you must be on the Vice Committee." "What? A teetotaler? He's a newspaper man!" "Get up at six-thirty? Why, there's no such hour!" Oldtime note: false posterior worn by an actress who doubles in two roles...