Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles quite as turbid as those which, in her famous oldtime serials, she eluded...
...lines as Shakespere wrote them indicate that he intended Shylock to be a mixture of good and evil. At one moment you laugh at his tears for his daughter and his ducats, but the sincere lament that follows immediately after for the loss of Leah's ring certainly arouses anything but scorn. Again, when Bassanio and Antoncate comedy, and Shylock a wretch who gets his just deserts, but he is not a stage villain of Gothic blackness. Instead, Mr. Moscovitz shows a fusion of contradictory emotions: gile and hate mixed with love and sincerety, a true Shakesperean character...
...hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme from the realism so popular a few seasons age. "Green Pastures", "Berkley Square", and the New York cast of "Michael and Mary," are instances of this, she declared. Glamour, "the willing suspension of disbelief", the successful effort to make people laugh understandingly, are the missions of the modern theatre...
...picture pirating might take the place of subsidizing of athletes. All sorts of unhappy conditions might ensue. The other system might lead to a Rousseauistic doctrine of football. Consider twenty-two brawny warriors with Hobbes as their coach and trainer. Perhaps the only thing to do is to laugh...
...speech over again for the third time and is asking if anyone wants to hear his story. Everyone can see that he is quite rattled now and the room quiets down as the "speaker" continues. While the story progresses, Charley Sullivan, in whispers, circulates an order that no one laugh when the joke has been given. As the new man finishes, waiting for the applause which is not to come, everyone wants to know where the joke is. They urge him to continue, assuring the youth that they are still listening and want him to finish. Of course he does...