Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedienne. In The Girl from Missouri, written by Anita Loos & John Emerson, Lionel Barrymore wiggles his eyebrows as skillfully as ever, and Franchot Tone, as usual, gives an ingratiatingly juvenile performance. But it is the presence of Jean Harlow that supplies the picture with its vital humor. Good shot: Eadie jumping off the Paige yacht when she learns that the youngster she mistook for a bookkeeper...
From the editorial success of the Stars & Stripes Harold Ross had carried home the outlines of a formula for a magazine to be written and edited strictly for one class of readers. Its blood and bone was to be delicate but honest humor and satire, written up to the standards of its editors, deliberately unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play...
...Hawaiians have a word meaning to humor or jolly for a purpose. It is hoomalimali. Last week President Roosevelt, who can hoomalimali better than most men, was coming to apply his art to their injured feelings. And for him his hosts had prepared the biggest hoomalimali party on record to get Hawaii out of the stepchild class...
FRIENDS AND ROMANS-Virginia Faulkner-Simon & Schuster ($2). If the recent heat wave had done nothing more than bring this ephemeral bloom to flower, it was worth it. Seldom has a first novel been written with higher good humor or a more disarming wit than Virginia Faulkner's Friends and Romans.* A "comico-romantic novel," it breaks nobody's bones or butterflies, lets no threatening skeletons loose on a frightened world, hurls no manifesto, literary or political. Pertinacious sniffers might accuse Author Faulkner of abetting James Joyce in attempting to restore the pun as an honest figure...
...refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier flame, whose sense of humor more nearly flatters hers...