Word: merriments
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...does the merriment stop with the performance; rather, in accredited dialect--You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Invited by the charming ushers in evening gowns, you join the cast on the stage for a preliminary cup of coffee and a sandwich gratis. Follows then community singing and dancing, all very folksy, and you can take home anything that strikes your fancy. You will find Belle Livingston just a bit elderly for your tastes, but she is very nice about bringing the young people together. Restrictions are of a naive nature, to quote the program, "Kindly refrain from cracking peanuts during...
...between study as well as a restful climax to a hectic Thanksgiving weekend. The female part of the audiences, if there were such, respectfully refrained from sighs and sobs at the motherly Paulino Lord as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." And W. C. Fields provided his usual drunken merriment for the rest of us. In short, it is a well-presented transcription of that touching novel which our sisters must have read, the climax coming when Fields takes Zasu Pitts' acceptance of his marriage proposal with a peremptory "Good", and then proceeds to the home-cooking without further interruption...
Though most of the country was again laughing at the latest Butler story, the special House Committee declined to join in the merriment. Turning from the Fascist putsch yarn to investigate Communism among New York fur workers, Congressman Dickstein promised Commander Van Zandt a later hearing in Washington. "From present indications," said the publicity-loving New York Representative, "General Butler has the evidence. He's not making serious charges unless he has something to back them up. We will have some men here with bigger names than Butler's before this is over...
...paper. Tall Mary Hone, as the wife, performs creditably in a rôle last played in Manhattan by Blanche Yurka five years ago, by Eleanora Duse ten years ago.* Iolanthe. The operetta, during whose composition Sir Arthur Sullivan successively lost his father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards. William Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just...
...largescale reform, they exert a potent, if nonpolitical, influence in shaping the whole character of the Roosevelt Administration. Political Washington has never seen their like before, and last week political Washington suddenly held its breath because of them-hardly knowing whether to quake with fear or roar with merriment. Before a House Committee hearing on the Stock Exchange Control bill, a measure drafted by the Administration's brilliant young legalites, appeared James H. Rand Jr. (Remington-Rand), chairman of the Committee for the Nation. Mr. Rand's Committee, which was all in favor of devaluating the dollar...