Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunting lodge; points the grisly finger of suspicion at nearly everybody and finally solves the situation by showing that there was a radio transmitter in the room when the murder happened, and the police were listening intently all the time. All this produces an alternating current of shiver and laugh, but none too strong a current...
...golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk in a ditch...
...less interesting and more turgid forms than distinctive movies. The program of films scheduled for the coming months at the local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...
Actress Eva Le Gallienne spoke for her profession. Sophie Irene Loeb, able lobbyist for social welfare legislation, gave a rousing account of herself in laugh-getting colloquialisms. Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune, "first woman reporter in the Senate gallery,"was allotted four minutes to relate the evolution of the female journalist, but she spoke so quietly, so modestly, that the chairwoman (Mrs. Oliver Harriman) had to call loudly for order before two of the minutes had passed...
...Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together in a gymnasium class, and the discrepancy in their sizes was so ludicrous that each instinctively "clowned it." After that they worked up skits on purpose and still later, caught stage fever. But Aubrey Lyles still has the serious face of the young medical student...