Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amused, at the University Theatre last night when we strolled in to see Ed Brendel play "Mr. Lemon of Orange". There was every reason why we should have been. If Edward Cantor, Esquire, designs the dialogue things are fated to happen to one's abdominal district, whence the human laugh is said to find its being. And when a Swede speaks English, even though it is really an American making an entirely successful attempt to speak Anglo-Swedish, one rejoices unrestrained...
...Legs, Madame Butterfly. Interviewed last week in Manhattan, Mary Pickford said: "Even the greatest stage artists of the past would seem funny to us now if we could see them as they really were. If I passed away tomorrow, I'd hate to think posterity was going to laugh at me. I advise all modern film people, except possibly Charles Chaplin, to get rid of their pictures too. They will be absolutely ridiculous in 20 years...
Those in authority will of course laugh. They will produce 67,453 reasons why it is impossible. The idea obviously is absurd. But often those of us who are older are too ready to overestimate our own capacity, assuming that years have brought us wisdom, and too ready to underestimate the capabilities of youth. There is nothing intricate about the running of college athletics. And if there is, there shouldn't be. For instance, I take exception to the belief that an undergraduate manager cannot procure tickets and hotel accommodations and arrange for the transportation of a football squad from...
...late "Joe" Cotton was noted for his easy informality. Once while he was Acting Secretary a U. S. Ambassador, fretted by a triviality, cabled the Department for instructions. Cotton wrote a message to him: "Laugh it off." When clerks explained that the Department had no code word for ''laugh," Cotton had the message sent anyway in uncoded nakedness...
...Laugh and Get Rich (RKO). Small-town boarding houses are still a pre-eminent locale for a certain kind of unpretentious comedy, usually built around the lady who runs the boarding house, her loafer husband, her pretty daughter, the star and other boarders. In Laugh and Get Rich, written by Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor...