Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even childbirth is clocked with rigid precision at the Japanese Court, the most meticulous and totally devoid of humor in the world...
...Husbands Go. Every time one enters Producer John Golden's theatre one can be sure of seeing a show made out of good solid, substantial stuff, with a dash of sympathetic humor. Mr. Golden's latest divertissement, As Husbands Go, is by Rachel Crothers, who has been writing plays for 27 years and has never yet lost a female character's honor. Her present piece is no exception, although for a time it looked as though Lucile Lingard (Lily Cahill), who found romance and a young English poet while visiting Europe, might let Miss Crothers down...
...Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...
...Nights in a Bar-Room (Roadshow Productions). In cities where drinking is the principal source of humor for a large social class this tract has been successful when presented as burlesque. There is nothing burlesqued in the picture and the serious mood makes it funnier than any burlesque could be. It is funny in an amiable, homely way, as if long before the sound-device or Prohibition had ever been heard of a company had somehow made Ten Nights in a Bar-Room with sound and revived it now as a gentle souvenir of the cinema technique as well...
...Sophistication" is a fighting word, like "sense of humor." Gertrude Atherton, who resents pseudo-sophisticates, in The Sophisticates has attempted to do them sophisticated dirt. The book is also to all intents a murder story...