Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laugh Parade is produced, staged, largely written by and for Ed Wynn. It presents the usual Wynnsome monkeyshines, Comedienne Jeanne Au-bert's thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...
Until 1928 Dr. Salomon, a bland, heavy-set German with an ingratiating smile, was not even an amateur photographer. Born in Berlin 63 years ago, he took degrees in law in both Berlin and Munich. He started life as a lawyer, became a banker, then found himself press agent for a German publishing house. While working at this job he heard of a new German camera small enough to carry easily in the hand, sensitive enough to take pictures without special illumination...
...wound up with, "Indians impotent; CRIMSON cooney. That will make the score 49 to 0." Then with a complacent smile he pulled the covers back over his head, wrapped his arms about the pillow and went to sleep. It was the soft sleep of victory...
...CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill can afford to relax his stern face occasionally and smile on life. Equipped with proven genius, he is comparatively a young man. Money rolls in from Strange Interlude, still on the road. The kudos he has received may be only a sample of what is to come. Above all a living writer, he looks steadfastly to the future, scorns any present estimate of his work, explains: "It seems to me that there is too damned much of that sort of thing being done in America...