Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...
...fame, is featured in the production, yet the humorous honors are over-whelmingly carried off by Mr. William Kent, who, as Steve the janitor, masquerades triumphantly through the piece as Colonel Hutt. The audience chuckles perforce every time he appears on the stage and is put into roars of laughter during his inimitable interpretation of inebriety. In these days of drought one appreciates all the more so natural and true-to-life a reminder of wetter times...
Next to Miss Gordon, Eddie Kane and Jay Herman contribute the most entertainment in a singing farce "The Midnight Cocktail," which was greeted with prolonged laughter. Other entertainers, in most of whose acts clever songs predominate, are: Will Oakland, James F. Kelly and Emma Pollack, Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich, and Bayonne Whipple and Walter Huston...
Will the jazz of the saxophone suggest to Cicero's stony ears the flourish of trumpets? These classic features will forever grace such occasions and these lips will forever be silent although the heart of 1921 thrills with youth and laughter...