Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely more credible is the theory that the damage, was caused by the sorry action of a would-be practical Joker. Among the traditions of every student community are treasured the ooups of the great practical jokers of its past--men famed for the astuteness and the climactic humor of their deeds. If the present bit of stupid destruction were intended in emulation of these deeds, it can only be judged as a miserable failure. More charitable would it be to attribute it to a move of simply insanity...
...merits, The Second Little Show is an extremely tasteful production. On the same ilk as Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...
...Significance. Author Priestley writes freshly and smiles frequently. But his humor and facility engender their allied failings, and the book never bites through to reality. Lacking the sincere emotionalism of Dickens, he yet does not reach the labored truth of Galsworthy, though he has learned from both. Still his lively perceptions create a very readable and satisfying counterfeit of life. Accomplished craftsman, lie has an excellent understanding of the novelist's profession, a less imposing knowledge...
...elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered by plumpish, sleek Mae Barnes, who delights many a spectator with her slatternly, lazy dance. Most tuneful song: "Loving...
...ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification, now for the first time in the cinema, as a valid individual outcropping of U. S. humor. The story is a wandering anecdote about a pretty girl who owns a tent and is loved by Cook. Denouement: the tent burning down, the heroine hanging by the ankles in midair, Cook rushing in to save...