Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something to read. . . ." However, she sculpts a little and writes verse. Her singing is surprisingly good. For her next picture she is deciding between two serious...
...Michigan's admittance to the Union. But its career of influence really began after the Civil War when the Free Press (a violent anti-Slavery paper) was edited by William E. Quinby. In the 44 years of his control, Editor Quinby developed the late Charles B. Lewis, whose humor made famous the nom de plume "M. Quad." Poet Guest he hired as an office boy. Robert Barr ("Luke Sharp") worked for him many a year before going to London to found The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. The paper ceased to be the DEMOCRATIC Free Press in 1806 when...
...modern review, "The Third Little Show" is an obvious success. The matter of lavish sets and multitudinous choruses is left to the movies. The excellent humor of the individual scenes carries the show and with a small amount of necessary revision and rearrangement the result should approach the first rank...
...Chicago last week Joseph M. Lansinger, publisher of College Humor and Real Detective Tales, announced that the June number of the latter magazine would present documented proof of this story...
...unit of dormitories to its University, and not every performer in the show gets elected to the club. Last week in Manhattan the organization concluded a five-week tour, presenting its 43rd production, East Lynne Gone West, or Virtue Triumphant, Even Unto Death. Squeezing the last few drops of humor from the well-worn procedure of burlesquing the melodramas of the '60s, East Lynne Gone West was for the most part a very solemn affair. The young Mask & Wiggers seemed incapable of brushing aside the influence of their stodgy elders, projecting an atmosphere of good-natured undergraduate fun across...