Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...deep, rich humor is the mark which separates Gertrude Stein from the stretches of the lunatic fringe. For her there is no working hour camaraderic in the lusty tradition of Murger; none of the careless, raptural inspiration of his Rodolfo. When the doors of 27 Rue de Fleurus are locked and the last villager has gone; in those sweet hours between midnight and dawn, when even Alice B. Toklas is abed, work, stern and serious, is the portion of Gertrude Stein...
...miss this, for Mr. Cantor is at his best and in his element. At least a hundred chorines, charming specimens, surround him on several occasions: they dance or do setting-up exercises. There are catchy tunes, intricate routines for the chorus, and an ample amount of wisecracking humor. With a minimum of plot, the director relied on Ziegfeld's tactics for a musical extravaganza with considerable success...
There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
When President Harry Warner countermanded his order, Producer Zanuck resigned (TIME, May 1). A sharp-faced little man with a rasping voice, abnormal quantities of almost hysterical energy and a wildly eccentric sense of humor, Zanuck's reputation in Hollywood was founded on his skill in handling the realism that has been cinema's most noteworthy development since talkies. Unsympathetic to drawing room comedy, Cinderella romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters...