Word: jollyness
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Each of the company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the...
Sunrise. In Germany, F. W. Murnau, Ufa director, made The Last Laugh and Faust. Last week at a showing of his first Hollywood film, people looked to him, as usual, to repeat. In Sunrise he has a meagre story of a clod of a farmer who almost drowned his wife...
Ruddy, jolly, pipe-smoking Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, last week delivered his 'valedictory at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed on the S. S. Empress of Scotland for England and his official duties at Westminster. Said he, speaking also for Mrs. Baldwin, who accompanied him:
"Have you heard, sir, have you heard?" he gasped impatiently, "an impudent Chinaman had the temerity to land in an airplane on my parade ground this morning. The scoundrel! What are we coming to, sir? And, when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British...
"Elkdom" is the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks?a white men's organization which originated in 1867 among Manhattan entertainers as the Jolly Corks, first for sheer fun, later to do good.