Word: mirthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They range in time from 1860 to 1936, in place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair. Any couple who wished to see the whole cycle in orchestra seats would have to spend $26.40 at box-office prices. Of the nine shows," the couple would probably prefer: Hands Across the Sea, in which a charming but light-headed Mayfair hostess invites some Colonial acquaintances to an impromptu cocktail party, then forgets who they...
Skillfully directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adorned with two members of the original stage cast (Teddy Hart and Sam Levene), Three Men On A Horse is more than just a very funny picture. It has the authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty...
Pigskin Parade (Twentieth Century-Fox). Whether this was intended as a musical picture with a collegiate background or a football picture to end all football pictures remains uncertain and unimportant. What comes out is an all-time high in gridiron mirth and a musical that ranks with the season's best. For the radio celebrities, revolving stages and philharmonic orchestras that are current cinemusical trappings, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck has substituted a story that prances like a mustang, half-a-dozen songs with hit possibilities, a cast of capable young troupers who perform their functions with a contagious enjoyment...
...from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...
Joseph Stalin, chairman of the drafters of Russia's new Constitution (TIME, June 15). became the butt of Soviet mirth last week. Reason: the Constitution was discovered to have been so drafted that it gives the vote only to persons in the 18th year of their...