Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this they did with precision, discipline, dignity, good humor. It was not a day for cynics, or for defeated democrats, or for journalists looking for jaundiced "color," or for Hitler, or for those in the U. S. who had come to believe that only a Hitler could make such a day and such a turnout. It was a day for men who obeyed a law, yet knew well enough that in all the U. S. there were not enough soldiers, policemen, judges, prison wardens to compel their obedience; for the rich, the poor, the salaried, for men with names, creeds...
Last week Sculptor Epstein published his autobiography under an Old-Testament title Let There Be Sculpture (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $5). The book roared like a thwarted bull, and with as little humor. It told little about Sculptor Epstein and his dramatic rise from Manhattan's lower East Side, much about his work. Getting back at his critics, Epstein flayed the "wretched lot of logrollers, schemers, sharks, opportunists, profiteers, snobs, parasites, sycophants, camp followers, social climbers and . . . fourflushers [who] infest the world of art-this jungle into which the artist is forced periodically to bring his work...
...looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They...
...consider themselves a testing ground for plays of Broadway calibre, they're very definitely nestling in the wrong pew. Their offering this week, "Return Engagement," looks like a very bad combination of "Stage Door" and "Charley's Aunt." The title of the play shows at least a sense of humor on the part of the author--it very definitely is a return engagement of something you've seen innumerable times before...
...garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last week: "I'm a great believer in putting humor in music...