Word: merriments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average spectator who hails from districts foreign to the solemn traditions of Beacon Hill, is astounded at his display or merriment. And he is perplexed as to its source. Whether it be simply an unrecognized playfulness in the makeup of Boston's citizens, or whether it veers to the other extreme in the shape of a seriously perverted sense of humor, is hard to say. Whatever its excuse, it must be as irritating to the actors as it is to the playgoer who wants to get his money's worth of thrills, shudders, or sighs...
...Trophy Room. Among the guests at this dinner will be Professors A. C. Coolidge '87, G. H. Edgell '09, Theodore Layman '97, R. B. Merman '96 and several prominent undergraduates. The lecture will come at 8 o'clock and the speaker will be introduced by Professor R. B. Merriment...
Corbett is still the same old Jim, tall, well-tailored and wearing the same impenetrable face. He forms a perfect foil for the antics of his partner, his eloquent speech on the eighteenth amendment being completely lost in the gales of merriment aroused by the contortions of Van, as the latter attempts to tell his "red" joke...
...repeated in similar lines, causing the play to drag slightly in spots through lack of action. Mr. Megrue's characterizations, however, are admirable, and it is through them that he comments humorously upon many subjects of the day. Politics, bridge, marriage, prohibition, all come in for their share of merriment. Such lines as "Prohibition, like marriage, is all right for the other fellow!" will never fall to cause laughter...
...laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small talk entitled "Out Front." Marie Dressler is amusing as always, but the real comedian of the show is Al Brendel, who, as Yonson the Swede, is vastly entertaining. Every time he appeared on the stage, it was a signal for merriment on the part of the audience; one scene in particular, in which every article of apparel he wears falls apart in turn, brought loud applause. He and Flo Burt are ludicrously funny in the "Honeymoon Kitchen", as well...