Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich are being taxed, alive and dead, and it's quite right. One reason why death duties are better than a capital levy is that all the millionaires don't die at once." To this a heckler demanded: "What will you do when you die?" Amid laughter and cheers she flashed back: "I am going to send you my son." She declared that she would hold her seat only until her son was old enough to be a candidate...
...Hokum" is defined by general consent of the show world as any aged but infallible situation, action or remark which will reduce an audience to laughter, tension or tears...
...which he bowed in all dignity. He sang terribly, but they applauded every note he emitted. When the others of the cast-good artists-sang, they hissed them. Wilder and wilder grew the farce until everybody in the audience and on stage-save the unfortunate tenor-was choking with laughter. The hero was puzzled, but accepted his success. After the performance they put him in his carriage and in the ancient grand manner unhitched the horses, and the cheering crowd dragged him to his home, where after long parting shouts of ''bravo " they left him to meditate...
...does and imagines all sorts of things about the other characters. Often as this has been done in the movies, we can remember no like plot on the stage. The double drama of the main action; the suspense, the laugh, the further development that brings more suspense, then more laughter, is admirably managed.---Well, George M. Cohan wrote it, so we really don't need to analyze...
...LAZY LAUGHTER-Woodward Boyd -Scribner ($2.00). The Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago...