Haggerty: Girls! Girls! Girls! Be careful of my hats. Chorus Girl: Well, we gotta get down on the stage.... Haggerty: I don't care. I won't allow you to ruin them. Dressing Room Matron: See, I told you. They were too high and too wide. Haggerty: Well, Big Woman, I designed the costumes for the show, not the doors for the theater. Dressing Room Matron: I know that. If you had, they'd have been done in lavender.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land in the sky;... Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (Chorus)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughin...g is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the painted birds laugh in the shade, When our table with cherries and nuts is spread:... Come live, and be merry, and join with me To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha, ha, he!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and... sets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wit is a lean creature with sharp inquiring nose, whereas humor has a kindly eye and a comfortable girth. Wit, if it be necessary,... uses malice to score a point--like a cat it is quick to jump--but humor keeps the peace in an easy chair. Wit has a better voice in a solo, but humor comes into the chorus best. Wit is as sharp as a stroke of lightning, whereas humor is diffuse like sunlight. Wit keeps the season's fashions and is precise in the phrases and judgments of the day, but humor is concerned with homely eternal things. Wit wears silk, but humor in homely-spun endures the wind. Wit sets a snare, whereas humor goes off whistling without a victim in its mind. Wit is sharper company at the table, but humor serves better in mischance and in the rain. When it tumbles wit is sour, but humor goes uncomplaining without its dinner. Humor laughs at another's jest and holds its sides, while wit sits wrapped in study for a lively answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in choru...s, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »