Show Kinds of Stage Humor The French Trench who have au an armory of critical terms tenus both more exact and ancl more abundant than ours distinguish between three e different kinds of sta stage eo humor Brander Matthews writes In l There Theore Is ls s first of or of all the mere witticism the sentence laughable ble hie In It Itself elf the so called epigram and this they term the mot Second there Is the phrase which derles derives derives de de- de rives rl Its comic effect not from front Itself It but from Its utterance at a given ghen moment moment moment mo mo- ment In the movement of ot the story and this they term the mot situation Thirdly there Is the thc word or sentence whereby a n character expresses expresses expresses ex ex- ex- ex presses himself unexpectedly and characteristically unconsciously turning turnIng turnIng turn- turn Ing the flashlight on the unexplored recesses recesses re re- of his own soul and they are wont to call this the mot do de carne came tere |