Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Katja. The ordeal whereby for the sake of a nation, royalty submits to degrading incognito, is much met in Shubert operetta. In Katja, however, there is more than enough humor and music to relieve the redundancy of thought. Having already charmed the British, it brings to this civilization "Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing...
...orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many more Mr. Chrisman noted down carefully, wrote out with humor and understanding...
Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...famous Rooseveltian humor was at work even in his performance of his official duties. At the opening of the Spanish war, many seaside cities became frightened and asked for naval protection. One city was so active in its demands that the Secretary dug up, almost literally, one of the old monitors, leaky and water-logged, and had it towed to the harbor in question. Here the old tub remained, in momentary danger of sinking but the citizens were content...
...welter flash raucous snatches of prairie humor, vivid actions, scatterbrained flights of self-pitying, self-despising, pagan philosophy. The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism. Brother Tom is a semi-imbecile with a bulbous head, liquid eyes and great sensitivity; he married a Danish farm wench and went to Mexico City to found a socialist commonwealth...