Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious monkeys run after him and tear his clothes off. These are not, moreover, the only truly comic moments in The Circus. Scarcely any period of 30 seconds passes without supplying new and highly legitimate grounds for laughter...
...PORGY?Laughter and sobs in a close-up of Negro life in the poor quarter of Charleston (TIME...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
...Dolliver: "You are the greatest shepherd since Abraham." (Laughter...
BURLESQUE?In dingy burlesque theatre wisdom, tears, laughter...