Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with...
There are any number of good spots in the show, however, especially those in which either the Three Sailors, Will Mahoney, or the Lovely sisters take part. The first mentioned trio is without a doubt one of the best mirth provoking teams of lunatics now operating on the stage. Their absurdities and their dancing, which is really nothing more than a series of contortions, do a lot towards keeping one laughing through the poor skits that are sandwiched in between...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...
STREET SCENE-Proletariat passion and mirth...
...hard part is to be spontaneous about the same jokes every night. These giggles of suppressed mirth at the end of twenty weeks of suppression get to be sort of hard. But why be lachrymose, to make an ostentatious display of my brief college career. But speaking of stage conversations some one asked me the other day just what it was that chorus girls talked about while standing about on the stage between dances. He seemed to think it would be more or less a discussion of something far removed from stage life while as a matter of fact...