Word: mirthful
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...become an annual, went to press with a great deal of shouting; but when the opening audience read the proofs, their reactions were divided. It was agreed that Earl Carroll had crowded a chaotic beauty into his production that would be hard to match but that his search for mirth and music had been less successful. Joe Cook is again the headlined humorist, but somehow his new material does not make up into so effective a garment of gaiety as did his veteran vaudeville sketches. Sophie Tucker heads the parade of pretties. Miss Tucker is not pretty. She is large...
SWEENEY TODD?A mid-19th Century barber makes meat-pies of his enemies, thus moving us to mirth where he was wont to curl the hair of our grandfathers...
...have wine and women, mirth and laughter...
...plot is not the point. It is Fields with his delightful German accent who carries the show. Even the saddest situations, handled by this popular pet of the last decade, become the subject of uncontrolled mirth. The scene in the office of Al Tyler with off-stage jazz bands, is a true picture of the slapdash production of vaudeville and musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing...
...Mary Carr that at times it suggests Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle. Mr. Hopwood has again used to advantage his favorite device of bringing an estranged husband and wife together in a quarantined house, and for once the obvious tag moral is so well put that it arouses mirth rather than wrath...