Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...
True, some of the jokes are rather mummified, but, judging by the laughter of the audience, there must be some people who haven't heard a joke in ten years. And all the other ingredients that go to make up a successful musical comedy are there in profusion. The music is catchy and pleasant?indeed some of the songs will probably afflict the flat-dweller's ear from the phonograph next door for months to come. Vivienne Segal has one of the best voices in light opera and uses it with effectiveness and precision. Richard Carle and Billy...
Perhaps some former reciters will turn to broadcasting. Let us hope so. But there they would miss the applause, the laughter, the shrieks of terror from the baby as The Bells clanged inexorably on. Kind, genial, harmless creatures?their only pay was applause. It seems unfair that aerials and wavelengths should have done them down...
...Rivals. Sheridan's star ascends once again in all its blaze of eighteenth century wit and laughter. If any cast can do The Rivals justice, the Equity Players do it?almost. Mary Shaw as Mrs. Malaprop plucks her juicy verbiage with consummate taste. James T. Powers as David corners the greatest single contribution of laughter and applause?enough to make a dozen Broadway successes. But what one actor has a chance to shine pre-eminently in such a congeries of stars: Maclyn Arbuckle, McKay Morris, Francis Wilson, J. M. Kerrigan, John Craig, Violet Heming, Eva Le Galliene, Vivian Tobin...
...York- how much money each made or lost last week-whether you should buy your seats for them at the agency, the box-office or the cut-rate ticket place. Here is the entire, gigantic amusement business of America, seen from within-births, marriages, divorces, deaths-its laughter and sorrows-its successes and failures-down in print...