Word: humourous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence writes brilliantly: his style is his own and it is rarely a dull one. His stories are not slovenly. Most of his characters are real at times. The plots are ingenious as in "Samson and Delilah" where an errant husband turns up unexpectedly after fifteen years. He has humour as in "Monkey Nuts...
Humor, conversation, music, songs, and dancing all go towards the seasoning of a show. The "Spice" has plenty of all these ingredients, but some are either tastelessly weak, or bitterly strong. The conversation was clearly weak. Some of the humour left a rather sour taste in the mouths of the more delicate members of the audience. Of the music, songs, costumes and scenery, little can be said more than that they were merely "fair...
...conceptions become living actualities. There are few-undergraduates in Harvard, for example, that could not be fitted with nicety into some one of the divisions of the category. The list is one of beliefs; but it is one of human beings as well. Every man is still "in his humour...
...dancing and humour there was an ample supply. Valodia Vestoff led the dancers, both in skill and pleasant ability, with Ula Sharon a close second. Never have we seen a more realistic interpretation of an Apache dance, moreover, than that given by Gretchen-Eastman and Donald Kerr. Nor a more complete travesty than the one staged by Joe 'Brown and Gordon Dooley; this pair were the funniest part of the show, and whenever they appeared kept the audience in a continual series of hysterics. Honorable mention should be given as well to Mr. Brown's mouth. As a combination...
Speaking of appreciation, the audience at the Wilbur on Monday night enjoyed themselves to the fullest extent. The pleasure of the actors at some of the misplaced guffaws cannot be vouched for, but the spirit of genial humour presided nevertheless. The Theatre Guild must be indulgent toward Boston; it has seen so many merry comedies of late that to laugh has become a habit...