Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play has, until this revival, never been acted in Boston--a strange fact when one considers the human interest and particularly the humor that it yields in actual performance. The fat Knight and his followers appear in their most amusing vein; the old King presents a moving figure of a dying monarch and father; and his son, Prince Hal, is a most interesting character study of the mind and heart of one who combines humanity and loyalty...
...last act takes place in an ante-room in Hampton Court Palace. King Henry is here seen at his best and kept the audience in high good humor over his buffoonery. The act closes with the heroine in the hero's arms and a ridiculous clap-trap stage device showing the Celtic shores appearing through the royal tapestry on the walls...
...Adventurers" is not up to the family standard, nor as good as some other poems in this same issue. The standard surprise story which every Advocate has contained since the misty days of the paper's beginnings is here also,--"A Matter of Taste." Is there, then, deliberate humor when Mr. Leffingwell bids us at the bottom of the page turn our thoughts "To Death. (From the French of Beaudelaire...
...much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends it to be. If the latter added more humor to his other gifts,--the reaction to color, feeling for childhood, and sense of atmosphere,--he would be a better artist...
William Hodge has come to Boston in his first new play for ten years, "Fixing Sister," at the Majestic. In some respects this play is like those former familiar vehicles of Mr. Hodge, full of quiet humor and Yankee wit, and again the hero is a "man from home," shrewd, drawling, and lovable. This time, however, he is in different surroundings, for he has chosen to place himself, not in a little village, but in the midst of the society life of New York...