Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Hollywood executive. Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable in a business whose executives are conspicuously lacking in that quality...
...Cambridge associates. Seventy-two of the 137 pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin, his work in the Patent Office, his quarrels with other Latinists, his arrogance, acid humor, anti-social habits and desire to erect an imperishable monument to his name...
With the exception of some good fight scenes, the whole thing is rather soggy, filled with trite lines and crude humor. Miss Davies does prove, however, that her day, if she over had one, is definitely over. Working under a tremendous handicap, Clark Gable does the best...
Anyhow, none of that is important except as productive scholarship. The fact that bathroom humor is profitable is all that concerns the present generation, to whom it has indeed been more profitable than was ever before dreamed of. As an example of one man who struck when the iron was hot, consider the not inappropriately named Chick Sale. He made a fairly sizeable fortune by writing a rather dull book on nothing more exciting than a privy--it really isn't very exciting--and he sustained it by donning a false beard and making equivocal remarks for vaudeville audiences...
...despite the distinguished pedi- gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared...