Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...
Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch...
...powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular because of the delightful humor that has been skillfully interwoven with the story. Fredric March, as Sam Wye, expert detective, is put on the trail of Joan Bennett, murderess, because of his peculiar fascination for beautiful women. Constantly harassed by Ann Sothern who, as "Dr. Livingston," easily walks away with the acting honors, and Ralph Bellamy...
...Gunga Din" is an excellent film. Thoroughly as exciting and far more skillfully made than any of its predecessors, it adds to the usual story of native uprisings constant suspense, some rollicking humor, and incidentally an interesting characterization of Kipling's immortal water boy. Battling a band of natives who worship the goddess of blood and show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles...
...test of an editor's humor comes, of course, in his attitude toward manuscripts. Editor Burnett's advise to authors: do not write farm novels, family chronicles, trilogies, books about childhood, adolescence, abortions; do not write about neurotics ("self-love's labor lost"), and, if you are a young Armenian, stop writing imitations of Saroyan...