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...gifted with a not-too-complicated sense of humor, there might be enough to stir the ready laugh in the sight of a group of men on the ground jumping up, running forward a few steps, and then making a head-on dive to the ground again, ploughing through the cinders or the mire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLAYIN SOJER" | 5/19/1917 | See Source »

...down before the boudoir door with no companion but a cigarette; he needs no lines at this time, he needs no lines at this time, he thoroughly acts his feelings. Miss Ralph missed a good opportunity to score high with the audience in not keeping her maid humor more subdued. Miss Lucile Watson as Julie and Mr. Harry Lillford as Algernon, the butler, naturally, contributed much to the entertainment...

Author: By F. E. P. jr., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 4/11/1917 | See Source »

...give a fair show to both sides of the question. "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, Jr., is a play of Ellis Island, immigration and the Binet test is superficially the most effective of the plays from the theatric point of view, though it lacks the genuine humor and human quality of Miss Hinkley's play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRODUCTION SUCCESSFUL | 4/4/1917 | See Source »

...male parts are only fair, and in one of them we find a jarring element; for the humor of Mr. Irving Brooks, when not machine-like, is a coarser element than should ordinarily be found in a production of so delicate finish...

Author: By E. Whittlesey, | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/7/1917 | See Source »

...sixth and last of a series of lectures on modern German literature by Dr. Frederick Schoenemann, of the Department of German, will be given in Room 22, 688 Boylston street, Boston, tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "Deutscher Humor" and it will be given in German. Tickets for students may be gotten at the Co-operative and the Co-operative Branch for 50 cents each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Schoenemann Lectures Tonight | 3/6/1917 | See Source »

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