Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...
...fifth, being a philosophere,-a man who has some clarity of vision does not worry. He is not dumb. Because he fails to join in the titter which floods its liquid way about the platform of learning, the Parnassus of dulness, never believe him uneducated in humor. Rather he is too well educated in humor. Four out of five get it because they lack one of two things, good taste-or good grades...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...films taken of Roger Follansbee '30, and H. A. Lewis Jr. '28, have been chosen, by the judges of the film contest being conducted by the First National Pictures and College Humor to enter the finals along with 38 others. Of the pictures taken in most of the large colleges and universities in the country 300 were selected and sent on to Hollywood where this semifinal selection has been completed. On May 23 the final ten will be chosen from these 40 by the executives of the First National Pictures in conjunction with important newspaper syndicate men from magazine...
...fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life would be not only simpler but pleasanter on the sun drenched shores of Fanua...