Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True, there's plenty of the old Hope slapstick and a dozen of those gun-in-back wisecracks, but there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet...
...hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint. 'Paint you and me going to the country on a bicycle,' he suggested...
...distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody of their experiment, which Mr. Benchley had written up for "Liberty...
When Jim Bruce first went to Buenos Aires 21 months ago, about the only instruction he carried was to make friends with the Argentines. A convivial customers' man and a millionaire (National Dairy Products Corp., Baltimore Trust), Businessman Bruce did as he was told. He got on joke-swapping terms with Juan Perón, hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting...
...joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built...