Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tombs, with 45th Street still in his blood, Chalmers wrote Taken from Life. Last month, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, it had its premiere. When guns refused to go off, bottles refused to pour, and the melodrama became increasingly witless, the audience started to snicker and laugh. The play dragged on so long that its last six scenes had to be cut because the stagehands wanted to go home. At Sing Sing, where going home is more of a problem, the audience was far more patient and sympathetic, hated to have to stop for dinner. When the moment...
...dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott's Second Reader, 1,100 pages which reveal Woollcott's chief reasons for reading: a good laugh or a good cry. As Town Crier, on the radio, he charmed with his anecdotes, pumped books he liked, made best-sellers of such works as James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Alexander Woollcott's While Rome Burns. As town wit, he sat far above the salt when...
Hollywood's Darryl Zanuck once kept blonde, blowzy Gracie Fields under contract for eight months while he tried expensively to make something out of her that the U. S. would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last...
...advice to the audidience, the Pennsylvania executive said. "Cultivate a sense of humor the kind that will let you laugh at yourself. If's your philosophy of life...
MONPTI - Gabor Vaszary - Knopf ($2.50). Reminiscent of the early Knut Hamsun, the Paris romance of a poor Hungarian student and an ingenuous coquette. For its full laugh-&-cry flavor, add Chopin accompaniment...