Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PORGY?Negro laughter and death along the Charleston docks...
...rostrum, unique honor for a private citizen. Said Mr. Longworth: "America's most attractive citizen." To his feet jumped Representative Snell, New York, moved to confer the Congressional Medal of Honor on the flyer. Hammering his gavel, not waiting for a vote, Mr. Longworth shouted: "The bill is passed!" Laughter; shouts of approval...
...second act exhibits the difficulties of unpacking and moving in. In the last act they sell the house. The result suggests that a few capable character actors employed two docile writers to construct a drama in which there would be a part for each. They wring considerable laughter out of dried up situations...
...four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter, rescues her from the disastrous embraces. Before this happens there have been many moments when watchers, in an agony of excitement, have twisted their terror into laughter. The hero is merrily played by Edmund Lowe, the heroine charmingly by Leila Hyams, the "Thing" effectively imitated by one George Kotsonaros...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...