Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrillo is entrusted with the task of giving reality to this theory. He is good but never great. The saving humor of the play is well developed by the remainder of the cast, particularly Miss Bryan-Allen and Malcolm Williams (General Orlando Jackson...
Pedro de Cordoba, cast as the triumphant Trent, plays with a fine technique but without humor and the indispensable grand mannerisms of a pirate hero. The ferocity of the crew and the fine feminine helplessness of Carroll McComas are wholly satisfactory...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line?work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all?is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...
Fliegende Blaetter, known not only in Germany but throughout the world, is a paper of the type of Life, Judge and others. Its cartoons are decidedly more virulent and less beautiful than those of Charles Dana Gibson. The humor for which it is known is often not suited to a New England parlor. Its touch with world affairs is perhaps more like that of Punch than that of any paper published on this side of the Atlantic. The very grossness of its humor, the apparent near-strangulation of every character in its cartoons, has created it a place from which...
...implication is (as it was in This Freedom), "Back to the home!" But Bread succeeds where This Freedom failed: in its fidelity to the actual conditions of life and its lack of sweetie-sweetiness. A long book, crammed with detail, written without grace, without style, with little humor ?but highly readable...