Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride of English debaters. Last week Cox Swartwout argued...
Subway Express (Columbia). Murder, and the detection of the murderer, in a subway train full of passengers in its run between 14th and 145th Streets, Manhattan, was accomplished by the authors of this piece with such credibility and pace, bit-part humor and rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...Delacorte and Editor Anthony announced Ballyhoo, a magazine which will not solicit advertising. It will appear on newsstands July 1 on a tentative fortnightly schedule. Editor Anthony, with free rein to be funny as he can, promised to plow the allegedly virgin field of advertising as a source of humor. (His announcement: "Read a FRESH magazine! All our editors are CELLOPHANE WRAPPED...
...Humor is not lacking in mild forms. George Biddle, in a light composition entitled "Bringing Home the Cows" has contributed a highly entertaining piece. "Lohengrin" by Adolph Dehn will raise a smile, while his other lithograph, "Pont St. Michel" is a really striking piece of work, containing a great deal of feeling...
...reason for its obvious discrepancies recondite. To use a too hackneyed phrase, the plot lacks human interest. Save for the casual friendship of the English and German Lieutenants upon which the action attempts to be based, there is little beyond its very real thrills and occasional humor to lend it coherence...