Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the characters you will remember as he did when you close the book. Jack Duffy, the shop wit, Max'I, the hard-boiled boss. Miss Weber, the stenographer all looked upon with appreciative eyes, and Kubee, the molde who didn't like landlords, all make an impression that is not easily forgotten. The author minces no words and his vocabulary is natural to the men he portrays. His style is lucid and flowing. He will hold your interest from the first page...
...Linda Watkins (June Moon) finds herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...
...biting remarks on the critics' taste for "comfortable" plays, but graciously asserting that the stagnation of the contemporary stage is due, not to the stupidity of the audiences, but to the venality and spinelessness of the modern playwright. Questions at the close of the lecture were answered with flashing wit. Asked whether there was not a dearth of Irish plays, O'Casey pallied gracefully by remarking that dramatisis are turning out enough plays but they're all bad ones...
...very formal touch football game held yesterday, the Sophomore Football Managers decisively and absolutely defeated their opponents, the Freshman Managers. The final score was 37-0, a proof of the greater sagacity and wit of the Sophomores...
Conversation Piece (words & music by Noel Coward; Arch Selwyn & Harold B. Franklin, producers). Like race horses, playwrights are handicapped according to their past performances. If Conversation Piece were the work of a newcomer, critics would probably have acclaimed it as bright, charming entertainment, brimming with wit. tinkling with melody. But versatile Noel Coward has done better before. Matched with This Year Of Grace or Bitter Sweet, the latest Coward musical piece is at a disadvantage...