Word: merriment
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There is no outstanding comedy element in America's Sweetheart, although Gus Shy manages to be moderately amusing. But continual merriment arises from the excellent book Mr. Fields has provided. At one point a regiment of stately ladies in ermine appears. Pretty heads tossed back, they parade gracefully to the footlights, begin a song with: "We all got stinking last night...
...Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small but energetic pit orchestra...
While scores & scores of guests at Belle Livingstone's "Mecca of Merriment" (TIME, Nov. 10) drank, ping-ponged, played miniature golf and rigadooned one night last week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried...
Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been...