Word: humorizing
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...idea and the results that may be expected when it is carried to its logical conclusion. The play itself is written in an easy flowing style and contains nothing foreign to the average American's idea of orthodox drama except its novel fundamental idea. It is liberally sprinkled with humor which has been well preserved in translation...
...During the war, Mr. O'Hara served in the Ordinance Department of the United States Army. He held the rank of second lieutenant. Since his graduation from the University, Neal O'Hara has written for the stage, chiefly for vaudeville, but it is in the daily papers that his humor has appeared most frequently...
...character so intensely irritating and a last act so over- worded are not to the public taste. Yet the play has far more merit and a sounder purpose than nine out of ten that spread their wares along the various counters of Manhattan show shops. Weak Sisters. Bawdy humor of undeniable effectiveness is woven through this entertainment. The ladies of the title are ladies of questionable occupation. Naturally it turns out that certain other females of the company, of more pious background, are not entirely innocent. There is a roaring clergyman to absorb many of the jabs of satire...
...reverse the natural expectation. The brilliant voice of Orville Harrold is called upon to sing a score of rather ordinary quality. Assisting him was his daughter, Patti Harrold, of somewhat slighter voice and slighter figure. When these were not warbling, there were few bright spots, of which the humor...
Germany. Nineteen pictures very varied, from 19th Century art plainly labeled "Made in Germany for Conservatives" to "Afternoon Tea" by Ernst Kirchner, wherein the tea table cants like a broken wing and the arches of the chairs leer with grotesque Gothic humor...