Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...falling in love with a country girl and changes his mind when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...
...skilful arrangements of current songs. Whiteman himself can tell little about a composition from reading it; he puts in most of his own touches in re hearsal. Famed in the trade for his busi ness acumen, he hires the best and most expensive players, keeps them in a good humor. He paid his former saxophonist, Ross Gorman, $50,000 a year. His own earnings are about $500,000 a year. He likes striped ties and custard, owns a ranch near Denver, likes to wear an old golf cap turned backward, takes a private doctor with him when traveling, can make...
...glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare could not abstain from making puns...
Equally positive was Mr. Carlisle in his refutation of the Governor's statement that a Buffalo consumer would be charged $7.90 for what a Niagara Falls consumer could get for a paltry $5.53. "I hope you will check and correct these errors," said Mr. Carlisle, then adding, with humor perhaps gained when he practiced law in northern New York, "The rates are on file with the Public Service Commission in Albany and can be checked, of course...
...baby, grew up and was educated in Paris. She is unmarried, in her 30's. Unlike her younger brother Julian, who writes of the French, in French, with grim French realism, Author Anne Green has needed no translator, is no very grisly realist, has gusto, gayety, humor...