Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always impressed me as being infinitely more worthwhile to make people laugh than to make them cry. And I have found in the 27 years that I have been acting that this purpose is best achieved cleanly. I wouldn't accept a role which my wife or children couldn't see without blushing...
...complain about Mr. Korff; his suppressed guffaws and waving of arms were in keeping with the part of the second-rate good-natured composer. Jay Fassett, Earle Larrimore, and Ina Claire are the principals; be it sufficient to say that they are consummate professionals, that Miss Claire's laugh is infectious, and that a few more actresses of her calibre would help the renaissance of the theatre with the assistance of more Behrmans...
...stuffy chamber of Germany's Supreme Court last week a dullwitted, loose-lipped Dutch youth with wild hair and shabby clothes sat laughing and laughing. There he was, Marinus van der Lubbe, propped up before Germany and the world as one of five defendants in a great Nazi anti-Communist propaganda trial, charged with setting fire to Berlin's Reichstag building last winter. All Germany was prepared to believe him guilty. Yet in London fortnight ago a committee of international jurists had held an unofficial trial of the same case, produced important witnesses, listened to reams of testimony...
...burden v. the black man's blessings-this brilliant novel makes mincemeat alike of the noble savage and the noble civilizer. If Authoress Holtby were not so entertaining, her carefully unmoralized tale might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow at the roots of an aging tree. Mandoa, an (imaginary') independent country to the west of Abyssinia, was complacently self-sufficient. Small, poor but proud, it was a nominal matriarchate actually ruled by a small male aristocracy, supposedly Christian...
...familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fiancée's next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named Jim Crelliman (C. Henry Gordon). Lawyer Durant brings him to justice, forms what looks like a lasting attachment...