Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no doubt about it, Lampy has a keen sense of humor. After having the feathers completely plucked off the Ibis by the Crimson ball chasers in the ball game yesterday, Lampy, with characteristic side splitting wit, stuck a sign on their building announcing that the Lampoon had won 23-0. It's very amusing, indeed, but it was not half as amusing as the Lampy who stayed up all night last week waiting for the Crimson to come and decorate the Lampoon Building, not half...
Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...
Lampy, as she stands in her current number, has been despoiled of the wit that made her. Alumni humor, it seems, runs rather to reminiscence than "nut stuff," and right now it is "nut stuff" that has the vogue. But the fault, Dear Ibis, is not your staff, but in your graduates, who have grown beefy...
...giving a play by Benevente, the Dramatic Club produces the work of one of the chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...
...most clearly. He creates a multitude of comical situations and clearly and wittily points out how the various characters act under these circumstances. There is not one dull moment in the whole performance; every-line sparkles, every line speeds on the action. Everywhere there is evidence of his subtle humor...