Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January the even tenor of Heloise's resumed undergraduate career was suddenly interrupted when a free-lance photographer named John Naegle, then in Iowa City, received an assignment from Editor Robert Pines of College Humor for a set of pictures on the daily life of a coed. Told to avoid well-photographed University of Iowa, Photographer Naegle journeyed to Drake, interviewed the University's business manager, Ed Lytton. Business Manager Lytton recommended Heloise. She immediately accepted. The pictures were taken in a bed, a shower of the Delta Gamma House, on the campus, in a classroom...
Bufano made the model three years ago, before Danysh was appointed Regional Adviser. Danysh is an energetic young man with a lot of excellent ideas and impulses who happens to have a brown beard. He is not a stuffed shirt, is locally famous for his humor, would not have permitted himself to be the model, seeks no fame through the Saint. TIME'S account was pleasant to read, partly incorrect, but not too grievously so. Friends of Bufano are glad the creation of a great monument to a great human being is the source of some warmth and humor...
...listening to the music of banjo and guitar. Shortly after midnight the plant superintendent appeared at the door and announced: ''All you fellows are fired!" He was followed by 50 State police who arrested all the strikers under warrants for trespassing. The strikers got up with good humor, took their banjo and guitar and marched through the deserted streets to police court. There at 2 a. m. a sleepy police judge released them without bail for appearance later in town court. Next day the strikers picketed, the plant operated peacefully...
Realizing the monotony, the producers evidently tried to inject humour in the form of Ted Healy and his face-pushing slapstick. Nevertheless, the murder is eventually solved, the diamond recovered, and Philip finds himself in Phyllis's arms. The two interests, humor and mystery, seem to get in each others' way throughout, frequently tripping up the action. Perhaps the one redeeming feature of the whole production is Elissa Landi, whose performance is good and beauty better...
...Great O'Malley" is a stupid, run-of-the-mill picture which divides its time between half-hearted humor and blatant sentimentality. The theme is old, yet one that can be convincing if it is well done. This time it is not particularly well done...