Word: humorizing
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...play is very thin, relying for its success on clever lines, some rather hasty characterization, a supply of aged "laugh-getters" in business, and the adept handling of a well-schooled cast. Miss Tempest's delightful sense of humor, and unfailing ability to squeeze every drop of comedy out of a situation or line livens much that would be otherwise drearily dull. Mr. Browne is a sincere, politely humorous hero, and unheard of as it is for a stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker...
...Gallishaw's is not one of the great books of the war. It lacks the skill of the professional writer, the humor and insight of the trained observer, which we find in "The First Hundred Thousand." It is however, a thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted...
...Brentano go the laurels. With not a little skill and with a great deal of lively humor he takes us to a dress rehearsal at the Hollis Street Theatre, introduces us to Sir Herbert, permits us to hear their conversation, and, best of all, Sir Herbert's managerial commands and witticisms addressed to the actors on the stage. It is distressing to find so capable a reporter referring to the theatre as a "veritable fairyland," a phrase now in good use only in the Woman's Auxiliary Alliance of the Osterville Baptist Church...
...opening of the first act, one derives the impression that the humor is to be poor, and the action weak, this fear is quickly dispelled by the entrance of Miss Fisher as Annabelle Leigh, who has a husband somewhere, and Mr. Nicander as George Wimblton, who recognizes the day after New Year's as the only time when he is likely to be sober. Once they have made their appearance the dialogue is transformed into a new and ultimate thing fairly overflowing with life. Characterization and personality appear as if by magic, and the whole action is enlivened and lightened...
...farce, "made by Mr. S., master of arts," as explained in some of the prints, could easily have been by Mr. William Stevenson or any other contemporary writer of the time, provided of course that he had an exceptionally keen sense of the ridiculous. The comedy is intensely humorous, and while few would take up the mere loss of a needle as the basis for a five-act comedy, such a loss in 1575 was far from being a trifle. At the time the play was written a steel needle was treasured as few family possessions are today, and when...