Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humor was not absent from the Court of Claims last week. When a particularly preposterous family tree had been reeled off in its entirety, the eminent King's counsel, Gavin Turnbull Simonds, observed with a discreet cough-quite as in Gilbert & Sullivan- "I fancy we have run into a bar sinister somewhere here...
...fortune to write and act in English, the language which pays best. He is not nearly so funny a playwright as George S. Kaufman, but he is more versatile, more productive, does all his own work. He never brought to his upper-class tragicomedies the range or authority or humor of Philip Barry, but he has lasted longer. All these qualities which Noel Coward has and has not have made him the world's most prosperous showman. He has written 26 plays and musicomedies since 1920, acted, danced, sung in most of them. In the past ten years...
Credit for the Group's finest and freshest show since Waiting for Lefty can be squarely split four ways: to Actor Collins for his good humor and dignity in a part which might easily have been confusingly eccentric; to Donald Oenslager for a series of arresting and imaginative sets; to Poet-Playwright Green for a profound and witty evangelical address to a world he at one point concedes to be "bass ackwards"; to Composer Weill for the weird, haunting little ballads and Europeanized fox trots which immensely help to articulate the play...
...proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...
...cracks in Two Hundred Were Chosen are literally calked with cinematic hokum and bucolic humor of the "Hold 'er, Newt, she's a-r'arin' " school, but beneath all this there is plainly discernible a sincere and imaginative view of an unusual social experiment. A woman fed up with the childish bickering of the males shouts the play's most astringent line: "There aren't any men up here-only farmers...