Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show progresses. "The Eternal Triangle,--From Two Angles," gives us an uproariously funny picture of "How the American Imagines it Happens in England," and "How the Englishman Imagines it Happens in America"; John Hastings Turner and James Montgomery Flagg are responsible...
...joke if it's nasty; an Italian if it's cruel; an Englishman if it's explained to him; and a German if it's on somebody else; but an American is the only man on earth who can understand a joke on himself. The American sense of humor is a bubble on the cup of courage." Isn't there a Japanese sense of humor...
Perhaps it is unfair to compare the work of College Students, rarely specialists in art and humor, with the best talent of the country, but all the more credit is due where the goal is occasionally reached...
...praised. Cover, style of type, and particularly the twisted reproduction of stock phrases known to readers of "Popular Mcchanies," live up to the best standards of other Lampoon burlesques. As to the material itself, although no one is likely to find here a newly uncovered vein of humor, no one with preconceived opinions as to what the Lampoon may be expected to offer, will be disappointed. Some clever drawing, some clever writing, faithful adherence to well-worn themes for jesting all these are found in their due proportions. Best of all these is the imagination so often lacking and wished...
Miss Hartley tells her story with a light touch as a rule, only occasionally gripping her reader with the less gentle hand of tragedy. Her sense of humor, essentially feminine, is an ever present...