Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. In the course of events he shows what a chivalrous fellow he is by rescuing from a sharper the children of his old rival thereby uniting the firms and making peace and prosperity the lot of all. The pot-pourri contains a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a lot of George Arliss. In Russia it will be correctly appraised as capitalistic propaganda, but the men who made it never thought of that, nor had they ever heard that there is in the cinema an art which can rise above the dead mean of pleasant, entertaining comedy...
Typical of the director's bungling was flatulent humor immediately following a murder, just preceding a bathetic attempt at a pathetic...
...atmosphere which one detects in "Zoo in Budapest," is not wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...
...metamorphosis was watched with interest by a onetime assistant editor of College Humor, George Teeple Eggleston, now editor of Life. To him it seemed a strategic moment. He went to his boss, Publisher Clair Maxwell, persuaded him that Life ought, for the first time in 50 years, to publish something besides Life. The result appeared this week-the first issue of University. Like College Humor twelve years ago, University was tentatively begun as a quarterly. Price...
...pages), typographically neat, University resembles the old College Humor, even to the conventional Rolf Armstrong cover. It includes a dozen pages of campus humor bought from undergraduate funnybooks; a novelette and a short story; a profusion of cartoons; sports by famed Grantland Rice; humorous sketches by such surefire Life contributors as Robert Benchley, Margaret Fishback, Gurney Williams, Montague Glass, Sam Hellman. Good feature : a portfolio of informal pictures of campus celebrities...