Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resembles chiefly a high-class vaudeville on a huge scale. A total of 22 scenes takes the spectator everywhere from the League of Nations Meeting at Versailles to a lavishly-decorated Top of the World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small talk entitled "Out Front." Marie Dressler is amusing as always, but the real comedian of the show is Al Brendel, who, as Yonson...
Congressman Joseph Walsh of the 16th Massachusetts district summed up a few of the most important planks in the Republican platform in the opening speech of the evening. He was followed by Swinburne Hale '05, who with vivacity and humor, that nevertheless had telling emphasis, explained the position of the "brand new proposition"--The Farmer Labor Party...
...many years ago a facetious ivy-orator excited the risibilities of his classmates by a masterly discussion of the then-mooted problem, "Does the Union Suit." His efforts at humor brought the more ready response because in those old, forgotten times (of 1917) the Union did not, palpably, suit. It had fallen into grievous desuetude...
Another playlet, but of a different character, is "Hard-Boiled Hampton," in which Harry Holman takes the part of the austere but really soft-hearted business man. The play is rather sentimental, but it is kept from being overdone by a saving touch of humor. The three parts are excellently taken...
...play is rich with bits of real humor, with real acting and a plot reaching at times true melodrama. Surely Boston is fortunate to have Lou Tellegen here...