Word: humourous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional joke perpetrated by a select club at regular intervals. The persons at whose expense the joke was sold were not supposed to see it. In fact the search of such persons (at this point my critic pointed out delicately that I was one of them) who looked for humour in the Lampoon really furnished the humour. The Lampoon, my critic explained, was in the nature of a fraternal rite performed by the members of a private club for their own enjoyment...
...players themselves try very hard to put across a play that is quite hopeless. Houston Richards actually succeeds in making the part of Joe Bagley, the shy and unbusiness-like editor, a thing of great pathos and humour. Mr. Richards can always be relied upon to turn in a sincere and intelligent per- formance--in this particular case, we think he does more than that...
...night at the Shubert made a successful entrance among Boston's theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...
...needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens at the "brighter side of humour" in introduction, mildly interested in getting at the subject matter, smiles, chuckles, and finally laughs outright,--and the poetry that follows, good, bad, and indifferent, goes down as smoothly as syrup...
...moods, a play such as "You and I" must come as a welcome relief. For here Mr. Barry has given to us not a comedy which ever and anon lapses into farce, but a true comedy of character. With the sure touch of the artist, and with rare humour, the author has revealed to us a portion of the life of the people around us, and it is pleasant to leave his play, and, going into the world outside, to find there men and women with hopes, ambitions and failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties...