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...vigorous, even though the show opened in New York more than two years ago. You may be familiar with Irving Berlin's slick music, but it still rings bells. And the indomitable team of William Gaxton and Victor Moore, assisted by Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni, troupe with spontaneous humour through the riotous plot. Maybe they did make a movie of it with Bob Hope (and if your think he's a good, watch Gaxton slip on a girdle), but "Louisiana Purchase" is basically and essentially one of the top examples of that classic form, the American Musical Comedy...
...newspapers of our nation. This quotation happens to come from an article by Ernest O. Hauser in the January issue of LOOK magazine. Claiming that "no one in America has a keener understanding of the Japanese than Mr. Hauser," LOOK proceeds to publish an article which would be labeled "humour" if it were not printed at this particular time. "The Japanese is compelled to go through life without romance--which may be why he lacks imagination and is generally such a dull companion," writes our learned "sociologist." "I have seen little boys behave so badly that in America they would...
Giggles, smiles, and laughs may be come a legitimate part of classroom life in the Yard next year if an unconfirmed report spread last night that Groucho Marx has been appointed professor of Humour is proved to be true...
Lampoon president Coles H. Phinizy '42 announced that his am would take an uncompromising stand in favor of Marx. "We prefer Groucho's teachings to Karl's," he said wittily. "We're going to demand a survey course called Elements of Humour A in which a good pun would guarantee a gentleman witster's C in the final exam. We also want a graduate seminar, Pornography...
Christmas recordings there are aplenty, to suit every taste and humour. Recorded by Victor on the Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung...