Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April 8, et seq.). As to why the President wanted these belligerents along on the section of his journey supposedly devoted to pure pleasure, observers offered a choice of three reasons: 1) the Presidential sense of humor will secretly be tickled by the spectacle of these two cooped up together on shipboard; 2) the President would rather take them along with him than leave them in Washington to raise Ned during his absence; 3) just as an Oriental potentate uses his viziers to scatter cumshaw...
...feet tall and able to look taller, Philip Merivale has a deep, rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
...survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final confession clears the last red herring...
...local boards in the Friday opening of "Post Road", the Wilbur Steele-Norma Mitchell comic mystery which enjoyed a seven months New York run last season. First night attention centered largely on Miss Young's performance which was invested with a good amount of her gracious charm and gentle humor...
...play is an absorbing mystery drama with a strong vein of humor. The quiet Boston Post Road home for tourists operated by Emily Madison(Miss Young) is whipped onto a whirlwind of activity by the precipitate arrival of a doctor, a nurse and a girl apparently on the verge of maternity. The doctor takes charge of the household explaining that the girl is a member of a prominent family and that the affair must be carried off with complete secrecy. Things go smoothly until a few days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping...