Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah for Un-da-wood !" appeared at a "Southern Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department...
...Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly-booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn the walls of railroad stations...
Garrick Gaieties. The students of the Theatre Guild have suddenly burst all decorum's bonds and produced an impudent revue. It is full of youth, energy and fine flashes of wit. Costumes and scenery it overlooks. It is a trifle amateur in spots. Special Sunday performances will be given until the subscribers and the less incurious public have completed their inspection...
...Great Catherine", the play was the thing rather than the interpretation of the players. It is a piece of gorgeous satire and rollicking wit. The burden of the plot concerns the efforts of an English officer at the court to keep free of the entangling wiles of the empress. Alan Mowbray, in the part, succeeded in doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating...
...take an oath on the Bible, he carried the audience breathlessly along with him. The play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone. The "religious tract" is a rare combination of uproarious wit, and preaching which is sometimes in deadly earnest, sometimes more than half in jest, and sometimes you can't quite be sure which. It is sufficient praise to the Copley players to add that such a piece loses nothing in their hands...