Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good dramas, Laughter represents a total of the talents assembled for making it, it is hard to give one more credit than another, but Stewart's personality has most definitely set its stamp on the result. In Laughter for once he has not depended on his particular kind of humor. He has used a theme that has served many generations but which he symbolized in a new and satisfactory way. Laughter has been built creatively, from the inside out, and Director D'Arrast and his associates have made it convincingly a drama of the present time. It concerns a woman...
...Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through the open door, looking steadfastly at me. I always wondered why she stood there so still...
...American Legion stands for a national characteristic indispensable in time of war. When in time of peace that characteristic was expressed by part of the Legion in puerile, rowdy horseplay, TIME reported the fact literally, letting those who would find humor in it. Besides: the City of Boston Hotel Association last fortnight reported to the Detroit Hotel Association, in whose premises the 1931 Legion convention will be held, that indoor damages at Boston totaled less than $500, bad checks only $300.-ED. Traveling Salesman
...cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce...
...College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose, he looks like what...