Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea and the results that may be expected when it is carried to its logical conclusion. The play itself is written in an easy flowing style and contains nothing foreign to the average American's idea of orthodox drama except its novel fundamental idea. It is liberally sprinkled with humor which has been well preserved in translation...
...During the war, Mr. O'Hara served in the Ordinance Department of the United States Army. He held the rank of second lieutenant. Since his graduation from the University, Neal O'Hara has written for the stage, chiefly for vaudeville, but it is in the daily papers that his humor has appeared most frequently...
...young lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...
...reverse the natural expectation. The brilliant voice of Orville Harrold is called upon to sing a score of rather ordinary quality. Assisting him was his daughter, Patti Harrold, of somewhat slighter voice and slighter figure. When these were not warbling, there were few bright spots, of which the humor...
Germany. Nineteen pictures very varied, from 19th Century art plainly labeled "Made in Germany for Conservatives" to "Afternoon Tea" by Ernst Kirchner, wherein the tea table cants like a broken wing and the arches of the chairs leer with grotesque Gothic humor...