Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Badge of Policeman O'Roon. At its best when Comedian Crosby is singing his two hit songs, On the Sentimental Side and My Heart Is Taking Lessons, it also puts a good foot forward with a breathless gypsy dance. But whether Actress Lillie's brand of humor is obvious enough for cinema tastes is an open question which Doctor Rhythm leaves still unanswered...
...COURAGE - Joseph Vogel - Knopf ($2.50). Written with a straight left, with humor and talent also, this story of a powerful, slow-but-sure-witted jobless Pole is by the author of At Madame Bonnard's, who looks like the best bet among present proletarian novelists...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
...Society of Newspaper Editors is off the record. Farthest off the record is the informal "interview" with the President. But last week, when the nation's editors left the White House, their uncommon exhilaration revealed something of what had been said inside. The President had doffed the good humor which he invariably shows to the editors' reporters. What was to have been an interview became a lecture with the editors on the receiving end. The President told his callers that they did not reflect the opinion of their communities, that they were lacking in influence but nevertheless responsible...
Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining picture. A tale of the Chicago in the roaring seventies, it is generously sprinkled with songs by the delectable Alice Faye and fist fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power; and with the great fire as a brilliant climax, Hollywood's latest excursion into the realm of spectacular catastrophe proves a great success...