Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ziegfeld will try his hand at something besides the "glorification of the American girl," when two of his foremost representatives will coach at the first rehearsal of the entire cast of the Hasty Pudding Club's show "Laugh It Off!" At the request of Louis Silvers, Charles Mosconi and Johnnle Dooley, headline dancers in the present edition of the Ziegfeld Follies, now playing in Boston, will drill both chorus and principals of "Laugh It Off!" in the rudiments of stage dancing...
With an auspicious turnout of fifty candidates at a general meeting at the Hasty Pudding Club yesterday afternoon, the competition for parts in "Laugh It Off", this year's pudding production, was officially begun. Louis Silvers, who has come to Cambridge for a two-weeks stay to take charge of the coaching end of the show, was present at the meeting to confer with the candidates, whom he divided into groups according to their respective parts. Last night the play was read to the competing members of the club...
First, she should alter the stuff that Jimmy Hussey has to do. Thin and strikingly Semitic for an Irish youth (which he really is), he has a way of making you laugh. His present lines and lyrics prove his skill; you laugh anyway. Cortez and Peggy dance, and have danced better. There is a jazz band that plays long and loudly. Two or three seasons ago, this was a good novelty...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock a general meeting will be held at the Hasty Pudding Club for all those intending to compete for parts in "Laugh It Off", the club's forthcoming musical production...
Among other things, the meeting will take up a discussion of the plot of the show. "Laugh It Off", written by J. C. Murphy '25 and W. S. Martin '26, is a two-act musical comedy. The first act, the scene of which is laid in a deserted country house at Beverly Farms, is a thriller guaranteed to come up to the standards of Broadway's finest productions. The second act features a costume ball at a nearby country club, thus affording ample opportunity for the display of the dramatic genius of Mr. Silvers and his charges...