Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Some characters dear to the hearts of many are left out entirely, while scenes are re-arranged with audacity to meet the needs of the present production. But none of the action which has made this the longest lived English comedy has been sacrificed, with the result that the laughter rung form a modern audience may be, comparable, if not equal, to the mirth expressed by the pit in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...present day attempt to regulate students' clothes would meet with laughter and scorn for the force of public opinion is great enough to keep a sober and appropriate dress, but it is a matter of pride that the Seniors have continued, voluntarily, a custom putting all men on absolutely the same basis, by adopting a universal distinctive garb for the graduating class...
...keenness of the autumn is in the air. The haberdashers are showing their new suitings. The perennial college boys are going in to the musical comedy with the same abandon of cheerful laughter, of jingling silver, and of bright fall neckties. It might be that nothing is lacking, that the football games and the hockey games and the baseball games should make out the year. The old order changes, but it changes exceeding hard...
...tender age and inexperience, "The Brat" is remarkably surefooted and bright. Heralded by no great blare of publicity and sneaking into town under cover of a blizzard came this little comedy, chuck full of laughter and flesh and blood humor. It came as manna in our wilderness of "shows." The play for some moments seems about to trail off into the ordinary ruck of "he be-friends, she loves, they marry" playlets, but the characters meant more to the author than did gentle stage tradition, so she let them work out their salvation. The result was a sincere little play...
...stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker, as the slavey, has a most unusual and agreeable comedy personality. Her work is careful, natural and is, moreover, never in bad taste, though it realizes each opportunity for laughter. The butler is over-stressed at times, and his make-up shrieks of burlesque. The others of the cast serve admirably to fill in and round out the evening's entertainment...