Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inevitable as spring and attractive as it will ever be for sixteen year olds, "Blossom Time" is no better this year than it was last. The voices are not the best, the acting is dated, the humor is not at all subtle, and yet audiences applaud and keep flocking to the Majestic every year. Along with a group of others that belong to a golden period in stage history, "The Student Prince," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Red Mill," and "The Chocolate Soldier," the current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz...
...fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December scheduled a state-wide referendum on two choices: 1) a Commonwealth convention to revise the Constitution; 2) secession from the Commonwealth. The rest of Australia remained calm at Western Australia's threat to jump off the edge of nowhere. Wartime Premier William...
...annual argument with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, about salary; by $2,000; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After absolutely refusing to pay Ruth more than $50,000 for one year ($25,000 less than last year), Colonel Ruppert, presumably in good humor at the passage of the beer bill, gave in last week, hurried north to | see to his brewery...
...Gang and the New Gang" were actually addressed to the Mr. and Mrs. Everybody of the first three chapters, the book would have little worth; for to them, to all but the few, its tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks...
Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...