Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play is an unmusical comedy of the well-known wide open type, with people tearing about the stage uttering broad jokes in loud Broadway voices. It has no value, but, if you must laugh, go and see "He Said--And She Believed...
...interesting contribution to a recent issue of the Boston Herald Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, of Worcester, tells the following story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly...
Whenever the sunlight shines through small apertures it makes small circles--elusive, golden and beautiful. They are perhaps most often noticed in the morning when the weariness from a day's work has not come over one. They are small floating islands of joy which the child laughs at and seeks to capture. In life at college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole...
...violent excess a forcing of gesture and expression and in his voice a great deal of medieval exaggeration and burlesque. It is not fine art and to the intellectual it may grow the some, yet for the good of the world must never cease to make laugh...
...play is very thin, relying for its success on clever lines, some rather hasty characterization, a supply of aged "laugh-getters" in business, and the adept handling of a well-schooled cast. Miss Tempest's delightful sense of humor, and unfailing ability to squeeze every drop of comedy out of a situation or line livens much that would be otherwise drearily dull. Mr. Browne is a sincere, politely humorous hero, and unheard of as it is for a stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker...