Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the standard set by the Mosconi's, but the Ara Sisters, in their own dancing creations, and James Donovan and Marie Lee, with dancing, singing, and Irish patter, were well received. In his monologue on the League of Nations, Tom Lewis gives an unusual and successful type of humor, while Katherine Murray contributes some very original songs and recitations. Other performers are George Kelly in a satire "The Flattering Word," Selbini and Grovini, who show "The Follies of Vaudeville," Dolly Grey and Bert Byron, and Keegan and Edwards...
...notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas, leave much space for work that is less ably contrived...
...Coffee week, or Bolshevism, or some other topic dear to the Lampoon, he might gain audience. Surely his ghostly sayings would express the thought of many material but devoted Lampoon readers, inarticulate but eager for the highest of Lampoon standards, seeking the best and not the average of undergraduate humor, and pathetically ready to laugh and to praise on the barest excuse. KENNETH B. MURDOCK...
...Because he is an idealist, with his feet on the ground. He has consistently translated his ideals into action, not-into words. His broad sympathies are tempered by hard common sense, and he is also the possessor of a sense of humor, which (one may safely believe) will keep him from regarding himself as the repository of all wisdom, or the sole spokesman of his one hundred million fellow-citizens. He seems so far never to have lost his head, with abundant opportunity to do so. He has showed the ability to carry out vast measures of relief abroad with...
...What They Like About Me," "When Love Comes Knocking at Your Heart," and "Mademoiselle Bon Nuit," would all become favorites if they were sung a little better. Most of the jokes are familiar to readers of "Dere Mable," but that in no way detracts from their bright, clean humor...