Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these lectures concerns a period and an event well known to everyone. The triumphant return of "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the lifting of the ban on laughter, the revival of the theatre and the gay court life form a delightful story which can bear a great many re-tellings. The Vagabond wants to hear this story again and he also wants to find out something more about the other side of the picture--the secret negociations between Charles and Louis XIV and their unnatural alliance against the Dutch...
...lecture in France. I also spoke at girls colleges. Nothing is more full of beauty or seriousness. At Wellesley, for example, I had an audience composed of 800 girls and one man. So I began my lecture, Ladies and gentlemen!. And the youthful crowd broke out into laughter. It is necessary, on the other side of the Atlantic, to know how to mix the serious and the whimsical...
Just now as he has been perusing the "Amusements", the Vagabond has hit upon something that has made him stop mid-way between laughter and melancholy. Of course it is connected with the recent tempest which has been stirring up the dust of Broadway. It is not for him to judge the question although it is conceivable that one may be more outraged at the idea of censorship than at the ideas of the plays. But here is the thing itself. WHITE CARGO--The Original Sex Play. Are more words necessary...
...showing the audience how a Sixteenth Century Red Riding Hood got her pearls. It's impossible to say anything about Melcher; you've got to see him to appreciate his antics, and here's some friendly advice--wear a surcingle to keep yourself from falling to pieces with laughter. That lady could show most of these modern gold diggers a whole lot about hydraulic mining...
...ladies flock around it and the laughter's simply rife...