Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late to Laugh," a play with music written by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, will be presented in Boston by the Harvard Dramatic Club on December 14, 15, and 16, it was learned yesterday...
...Late to Laugh' I have tried to express in a dynamic manner the tremendous pace demanded by the city of frail flesh and blood," Freedley explained...
Philadelphia newsmen who cover the City Hall get many a laugh out of their work. Most innocent source of merriment is Councilman Charlie Pommer, known in the City Hall pressroom as "The Human Domino...
...Beggar on Horseback, The Butter and Egg Man, The Royal Family, June Moon, Once in a Lifetime, Of Thee I Sing, Dinner at Eight, You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner implies as great a knowledge of what the public will laugh at as of how to keep it laughing. Kaufman beat all his rivals at comedy and satire because what really concerned him was never the nature of the target, but only the location of the bull...
...perfectionism which also turned Kaufman into a director. He used to be driven half-crazy seeing other directors maul his lines, twist their meanings, spot a laugh where there was none. He first took over direction in 1925, on the only play he has written by himself, The Butter and Egg Man. He lacked confidence to finish the job, or even his next two or three, but since then he has directed almost all his own shows...