Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorification of the American girl, joke and melody is most intensively delivered in the following: Kid Boots, The Music Box Revue, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, Dixie to Broadway, I'll Say She Is, The Grab Bag, Lady, Be Good...
...29th page of that edition, you gave the name of Judge Allan of the Supreme Court of Ohio as Mrs. Florence E. Allan. I think you will find upon investigation that Judge Allan is single. I make this suggested correction because your magazine seems to enjoy a joke on itself as well as any one else...
...occasionally, this play may seem acceptable. It is a musical essay on the trials of Prohibition. The fact that a good many of the lines are frayed with age will not depress you. Yet, if you are a suspicious theatregoer from the midst of the metropolis where a good joke is an old joke in a week, you are cautioned quietly against...
There was no hint that recognition of Russia would be withdrawn; but opinion was divided as to whether the Bolshevik Government would break off negotiations or not. Meantime, recognition of Sovietland by Britain continues to be a lame and empty joke...
...drama-loving element, and by this I mean lovers of the higher forms of drama and not musical comedy fiends, this element certainly does not take the trouble to go to the theatre in anywhere near as large numbers as do the people of other cities. Perhaps the joke is on me, but I must say that whenever I have played before Bostonians I have found them the most unresponsive of audiences. Why this is, I am unable to say. All I know is that it is true...