Word: humours
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...little boy from the mudbanks, and can only be described as "winsome." However, Finlay Currie, as the Queen's physician, and Alee Guinness, as Prime Minister Disraeli, both turn in excellent performances. Currie's portrayal of the frequently "sozzled". John Brown is reminiscent of W. C. Fields, though his humour is more often bellowed than muttered. Guinness brings an easy-going dignity to the role of Disraeli, and makes a stirring speech in the one brief House of Commons scene. In the part of Queen Victoria, Irene Dunne seems rather awkward and is inclined to sputter, especially when addressing...
Eliot will continue in the House's Christmas tradition of Restoration drama with its production of Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour." Robert H. Chapman, instructor in English, will direct a cast of both faculty and students...
Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a ?1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London...
...visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass for a pennance, for the generality of the women here, both old and young, are remarkably ugly...
...press descended on the Lord Chamberlain with whoops of joy. Said the London Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...