Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion and the necessity for humor was one of grave solemnity...
...last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor...
...good humor people say 'Look at this display of good humor -they must be very well off.' If we are serious and thoughtful, then people say it is all hypocrisy. They want to make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady...
...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...
...which surprises one without it being improbable, the presentation is excellent. Mayo Methot as Florence Wendell--later Mrs. Fairchild--is scarcely less good, and, moreover, is exceptionally lovely to look at. And Mrs. Jacques Martin as the old nurse and general factotum around the apartment supplies much of the humor, and does it very acceptably...