Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
...loud laughs, as in all up-to-date humor, are few, but E. B. W. sometimes unbends to such old-fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long...
...longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being smoked in thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier...
When the Judge Hardy series started out as minor second features, they had captured an ideal combination of humor and sentiment; now, as was probably inevitable, their success has prompted Hollywood to less care in their making, and they have become stereotyped. This is partly due, of course, to the fact that the audience knows perfectly well what is going to happen. They know that the Judge will become heavily involved in a deal and nearly lose everything; that Marion will fall in love with the wrong man, and have quite a time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things...