Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ZANDER THE GREAT-Humor and shootin', sisterly love and the other kind on a bootleggers' ranch in Arizona. Alice Brady makes the most of her first adequate role in legitimate drama...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE - Theatre Guild revival of one of Shaw's early comedies that shows the Devil not so black as other people paint him. Roland Young remarkable as the only British general in history with a sense of humor...
Burns Mantle: "A lively show lightly touched with smart humor. James Whittaker: " Fragrant, joyous, seductive...
...must be difficult to be a good humorist and still remain a human being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur...
Irving S. Cobb: " Said I (apropos of some remarks by E. S. Agnew, Punch Director): ' Americans have a better sense of humor than the British because they have the British to laugh at. The British can't laugh very well because it is difficult to laugh over adenoids, with which all Britishers are afflicted.' " Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler...