Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty institute contained such promising pupils as Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, William Rothenstein. Billy Orps did not have to wait long for recognition. His humor, the firmness of his line, above all his brilliant use of color attracted inter national attention. Very soon he had more portrait com missions than he could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series...
...title, chosen as a boxoffice catch-penny, is misleading; but no matter, for here is a picture that without clamor, without pretension, attains what "The Crowd" and "Street Scone" sought begging. Humbly and with humor it tells in simple language its story of the tenements, of a wise-guy radio clerk (James Dunn) and the girl (Sally Ellers) who loves him. Knit closely by the interest created in these characters, and sustained throughout by succeeding moments of tension, "Bad Girl" possesses the signal merit of concentration found wanting in the Vidor productions...
Palmy Days (United Artists). Eddie Cantor belongs to the school of clowns whose humor derives from ineffectuality; a certain eccentric excitability makes him sometimes hilariously funny. His gaiety is without grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...
...Durium Products claims there will be no waste circulation: people who buy the Hit-of-the-Week will play the Durium Junior as well, listen to its sales-talk and music in the place where every advertiser longs to make himself heard-the home. First Junior advertisers are College Humor and Red Book...
Given a script written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and a cast composed of prominent Paramountites, and entertainment is in the nature of a foregone conclusion. "Rebound" has the cheery banter, the rapid repartee, the nonsensical chit-chat that is peculiar to Mr. Stewart's humor. And yet the picture has a high specific gravity, gathering body as it goes, until a climax of seriousness and deep dramatic interest is attained. "Rebound" is the story of a woman who marries the man of her love after he has been jilted by another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until...