Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
Hollis.-"Duldy". Lynn Fontanne keeps this trifling comedy on the edge of laughter throughout the performance by her portrayal of an attractive bromide...
...easily. The devotion of Peter, the office boy, the man who has cured his back; the dawning affection for the Doctor on the part of his wife; the awe and fear, almost, with which they both regard him, are set forth in the second act. We have the light laughter of the pair as they romp upstairs contrasted sharply with their mouse-like timidity whenever they are where they are likely to meet the Doctor. Again a good curtain is afforded, when the Doctor for the first time emiles at Peter and pats his hand...
...Herbert's quiet, amused humor is beyond words refreshing to senses somewhat worn by the boisterous and often raucous jesting of our native humorists. There is much that provokes a smile in these "Rays of Moonshine", and there is no less frequent cause for unrestrained laughter. The book as a whole is peculiarly satisfying. Its contents are imbued with that understanding of the eternal child lurking in every man of any sensitiveness--that understanding which drew from Carlyle the penetrating remark, "Laughter means sympathy". Such laughter Mr. Herbert awakens, such sympathy--sympathy with the human being so situated...
...Lampoon boasts that it is the father of "Life", Let it then study Life and find subjects for intelligent thought and intelligent laughter...