Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Law Enforcement Commission, after a four-month holiday, went to grips again with Prohibition last week. As its eleven members gathered in Washington, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, all a-twinkle with good humor, remarked to curious newsmen: "You never can tell what kind of blossom will bloom until the plant develops...
Next day the Commission's deadlock remained unbroken. Chairman Wicker-sham's good humor deserted him. He shouldered his way home through a blockade of newsmen with a curt "nothing...
...editorial instinct of the CRIMSON was aroused by the occasion of the first High Table it might conceivably have applied its high sense of ironic humor to the incident and suggested, among other things, that if the inhabitants of Lowell House (who may be somewhat concerned in the matter) really disapprove of the Tradition, they can quash the matter rather easily by adjourning in a body to the Georgian on any given Monday evening. But the CRIMSON seems persistently to choose to be laughed at rather than with, and repeatedly to make itself headline material for the journals...
With a triple-threat comedian-gags, feats, chatter-like Mr. Cook, it is difficult to apportion due credit for the amount of humor contributed by Donald Ogden Stewart's book. Audiences found the entire production an example of clever professional showmanship, the farce consistent even to the theme-song, which concludes: How's your uncle? I haven't got an uncle. Then I hope that he is fine & dandy...
...Wedding Night (Paramount). Out of a complicated and rapid plot derived from an old bedroom farce (Little Miss Bluebeard) has been drawn the mood of good humor that is this picture's main distinction. Clara Bow does nothing much but does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does...