Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lines from the "Pursuit of Pamela", a sentimental farce (on the program they call it a comedy) now playing at the Copley give the gist of the plot. The Jewett Players are never quite so delightful as when that farce is tinged with a certain amount of real humor of line and situation, the production is sure to be excellent indeed...
...Emperor Jones" is a short play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
...essential quality--readability. You may become disgusted with his opinions but, in most cases, you will read to the end. In the first place he has a style which, however, careless it may be, moves, and in the second place he is by no means without a sense of humor. It may be a meaningless world but it has amusing aspects and Fitzgerald has a keen eye for them. Sometimes there is high comedy and sometimes farce but it is always entertaining...
Wilbur.--"Liliom" by Franz Molnar. Joseph Schildkraut is a captivating "roughneck" and Eva LeGallienne the pathetic housemaid who loves him through ten scenes of an unusual play. Humor, pathos, farce, and tragedy mingle...
...true that a senator leads a precarious existence, but who will gain-say that he can at times indulge his sense of humor at the public expense? For nearly a month now the Senate has wrangled over the Alabama Muscle Shoals disposal without any apparent results. Mr. Ford's offer for the contract was alternately condemned and praised for a fortnight. Then Mr. Engstrum made the fight three-cornered by throwing his hat into the ring. Now the question has been further complicated by a doubt as to just what the government owns or has under lease there and also...