Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bringing Up Father. A kick in the pants is the humor of this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
...Hassan" is an oriental play which was produced for the first time in London in 1924 with great success. The scene is laid in the Bagdad of the fifteenth century. Adventure, intrigue, and romance are woven into a story which combines rare wit and humor with high emotional power. In a setting of color and life is placed Haroun at Raschid, the famous Caliph, and Hassan, a poor confectioner...
...plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...
...Void of Humor...
...even void of humor, the only thing that could possibly have excused its appearance in print, and contains only enough of official data to make it more insidiously poison to the uninitiated in its apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public...