Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the New York run, the tragic finish of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" has, in the twinkling of an eye, been changed to a happy one and the change can scarcely be called an improvement. Otherwise the play is as it was before, of the theatre, theatrical, but vastly effective, this Belasco version of the Grimaldi legend with Lionel Barrymore as the sorrowful clown...
...Grimaldi who "caused Judah to skip like a calf" from merriment, who made Europe rock with laughter. When, at the height of his career, he was seized with a terrible malady which developed into melancholia he sought advice from a London physician. "See Grimaldi and learn how to laugh", he was told. "Alas, I cannot, for I am Grimaldi...
...with the comic opera itself. There is no smell of camphor or mothballs about the stage, to be sure, but vivid visions of horse-cars, and bustles, and the Spanish War come to mind all the same. The gags are there to laugh at and undoubtedly present all the requisites of humor. At least they did thirty years ago. Yet if this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years...
...Preus of Minnesota. "But Jake doesn't laugh at politics. He takes it as seriously as most people take mah jong; and he plays the game day and night. 'He's the best d? officeholder in the world,' one of his political opponents told me. He never leaves his desk until everything is cleaned up and in good shape. Then he'll go out and address 40 million picnics, and arrive at every one on time. When it comes to political meetings, Jake's a regular Paul Revere...
...acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...