Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This travesty on the Little Theatre Movement by George Kelly has been rightly called a satirical farce. The author plays all the farcical elements to the limit and then ventures into the great void of laughter beyond. And actors and audience follow him with an uproarious abandonment...
Among the lists of laughter set to music, the following are particularly acceptable: I'll Say She Is, Big Boy, Ziegfeld Follies, Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Grab Bag, Chauve-Souris...
Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
...lunatic, that long-suffering character of recent plays, that the laurels of last night's performance must go. Mr. Remley attempts to portray a good-hearted but weak-minded old man and an impressive imperial Napoleon at the same time. In provoking the most spontaneous and genuine laughter of the evening, he is forced to change constantly from one character to the other. How he does it, we do not know. We are certain however, that when he appeared in the old lodge waving his sword and blasphem lng Wellington in stentorian tones and later when he misdirected the villain...
Alexander Woollcott? "So odd and preposterous a blend of Anna Christie and Elsie Dinsmore that one wonders its rehearsals were not dissolved and abondoned in the astonished laughter of the entire company...