Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke, becomes fired with the idea that inasmuch as the infant film industry is just learning to talk, there ought to be money in an elocution school in Hollywood. Their subsequent adventures through the fantastic world that Messrs Kaufman & Hart have located on the West Coast are crowded with humor. Nowhere could Once In A Lifetime receive better appreciation than on the legitimate stage of Broadway where prestige and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the microphones and cameras of California. Once In A Lifetime is really Broadway's Revenge...
Rare is the U. S. citizen unaware of these two books, in which a builder of outhouses discourses sententiously upon his craftsmanship. Thus Ex-Lax follows the modern trend of playing up a fad-of-the-moment in its advertising, also appeals to the same private sense of humor that carried The Specialist into best-selling fame (600,000 copies to date...
...ignorantly supposed to be able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take...
Garland's sense of humor, robust if not very uproarious, is strong enough to include himself. When he was a young man still trying to pierce the carapace of Boston, he overheard someone saying of him, " 'He's a diamond in the rough,' a fact which I myself dimly appreciated." Several times Garland met famed Humorist Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley), but "he was very serious in his talks with me, perhaps because he felt something depressing in me. We discussed weighty things most weightily...
...play under present consideration is a delightful English comedy. It consists of that more mature humor of contrasting characters, not caricatures. There is a certain mellowness and sub stance in Mr. Drinkwater's handling, and of course, the sureness of an accomplished dramatist. And there is no heap of froth to hide any inadequacies of plot. The usual "Says who-whozzat" business usually associated with comedy is fortunately omitted. The situation is presented and the comedy is a matter of the effect upon the different characters, always true to their type; ever so slightly satirical but always good natured...