Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton himself, will feel pardonably neverous about including anything so "heavy." That the Legend of the Drums drew a few guffaws on Graduates' Night, is no proof that it will be laughed at before a starch and chiffon audience in fact, to the contrary. The Legend of the Drums is not only an excellent narrative poem, but it fits in admirably with the spirit of the play. If an audience is forced to laugh too much it gets tired of laughing...
...Cushing, the author of the play, has also written several other well known pieces. He made the adaptation of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", in which Lionel Barrymore starred a few seasons ago, and also the dramatization of "Blood and Sand." He wrote the book of "Sari" a successful musical comedy, and in collaboration with Winchell Smith wrote "Thank...
...Miss Brewster's Millions" does affect one. At least it affects staid Cantabridgians who invade the gilded realms of alabaster cherubims and sera--so forth and so long enough to wonder why garlic never loses its saver and to smile, laugh, weep at the perils and pleasures of Bebe Daniels of the Enterprise Productions and a pleasant, very pleasant smile...
...Yale were successful at Cambridge on Saturday night. A much more sizable audience was lured to Paine Hall than the pitiful handful which has sat at the ringside of many an arduous intercollegiate debate in the past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory...
When, in The Baby Party, two young fathers grapple savagely, the reader's laugh is sobered by a glimpse of the combatants' real motive, the ache for immortality...