Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laughs violates the three classic lunacies of cinema: 1) never follow closely the story of a great literary master; 2) always have at least one character who looks like the man in the Arrow collar advertisements; 3) never be thoroughly morbid. Hence, The Man Who Laughs is a truly great, a devastatingly beautiful film. It was made by Universal Pictures Corp. from the story by Victor Hugo, directed by Paul Leni (the German who did the sets for Variety), acted chiefly by Conrad Veidt (another German importation). The tale goes back to early medievalism in England where political irregularity...
More a pageant than a play, Lazarus Laughed, by famed Eugene O'Neill, received its first performance last week in Pasadena, Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept...
...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...
...easy to make you laugh...
...over, a woman got up on the floor and made incredibly idiotic remarks. A young Catholic heckled the judge into issuing a defiance of Rome. Then the audience voted 505 to 137 that Lindsey had won the debate. Said Mr. McDaniel: "You can't get some people to laugh anything...