Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line between drama and melodrama is an obscure one, and "Hazel Kirke," current offering of the Stagers, crosses and recrosses the line. Plot, situations, dialogue, all in the best tradition of the '80's and '90's, offer plenty of opportunities for burlesque, and the person who delights to laugh at over-emotional characterizations will be more than satisfied; yet there is an undercurrent of genuine feeling in the play which elicits a true emotional response from the audience...
...Dewey the gratitude of every politician have been thoroughly punctured. And if any literate men still remain beneath their spell, there is for the purpose of enlightenment Mr. John Chamberlain's brilliant analysis of the vicious circle which is their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present...
Also, even you must have a laugh at some of the cigaret ads. 1 do. But the one on the back of the current issue disgusts me. I cannot joyfully relate the sacredness of marriage with consumption of nicotine even if it is toasted...
...Dorothy Parker has no compunction about breaking a butterfly upon a wheel. In fact it is the best thing she does, and her exhibitions in this kind are greeted with applause and cries for more. Like other first-rate comedians, however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness...
Stoopnagle and Bud, famous for their work on the radio, perform on the stage with a seemingly natural knack of knowing what will get a laugh. They take off Rudy Valee, Bert Lahr, and the Barbasol Man. The imitation of Rudy's singing by Bud was excellent, and elicited many healthy sniggers from the audience. No less commendable in the stage show was a couple which did the tango and rumba gracefully...