Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...sometimes described in print as a barking, brawling, screaming propaganda maniac. Actually the Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment is one of the great political orators of this century. He opens suavely, is restrained most of the time, mellifluent, knows how to whip a point over with the sting of humor, a trifle crude at times?or very crude if Dr. Goebbels is radiorating to the masses...
...Swedish Navy. Last week each of the 72 received from the Swedish Embassy a gold pin emblazoned with the royal coat of arms, and several telephoned the local consulate to make sure of their new rank. The consul replied that Bertil, though grateful, had a sense of humor: even the Swedish Navy has no sergeants...
...feature would fully compensate. It was no accident that the title of Deanna Durbin's "That Certain Age" was taken from a song Ann Rutherford sang in "Love Finds Andy Hardy." This newest vehicle for Miss Durbin is much after the Hardy Family tradition; it has the delightful humor of teen age romance; it has the homely and appealing simplicity of a down-to-earth plot; and it has the skillful directing which makes for smooth, leisurely exposition. More important than all this, however, it has that great, single asset of any picture: Deanna Durbin's voice. Better than ever...
Although the humor of middle and far western publications was admittedly more successful than those of the cast, none of them were invited to the conference. President William L. Calfee '39 in his announcement made clear however, that this action was not taken because "of any sense of superiority on our part," but because the type of humor prevalent among these colleges was "not in conformity with the ethical standards set by the eastern colleges...