Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always as her laugh rang through the twilight or her glance shone as the golden bar of heaven the Vagabond saw some poor wight follow after as Merlin followed the gleam...
...disguised himself in blue trousers taken from a Federal corpse, joined a Confederate night attack on Culp's Hill. At dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian...
...Faces, a pee-wee revue, lacking a chorus, are unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...
...radio it is a curious fact that these section are the least successful parts of the picture. His horse-trading scenes and the trotting race where he had to sing to keep his horse from balking, on the other hand, were exhilaratingly effective. We haven't heard an audience laugh so unanimously since the good old days of Charlie Chaplin...