05/30/25: And our humor parade now goes retrograde, to Spain & then back to Broadway, in a year unknown:
Franklin P. Adams was a newspaper columnist (1920s-30s).
His "column was also famed for its unpredictable puns. When a theatre caught fire in the Basque province of Spain ... patrons were smothered trying to crowd through the single doo…
05/30/25: And our humor parade now goes retrograde, to Spain & then back to Broadway, in a year unknown:
Franklin P. Adams was a newspaper columnist (1920s-30s).
His "column was also famed for its unpredictable puns. When a theatre caught fire in the Basque province of Spain ... patrons were smothered trying to crowd through the single door, Adams observed sagely, 'Don't put all your Basques in one exit.' "
--- "The Time of Laughter, A Sentimental Chronicle of The Twenties," Corey Ford [1902-1969]; Little, Brown & Co. (1967).
05/30/25: And our humor parade now goes retrograde, to Spain & then back to Broadway, in a year unknown:
Franklin P. Adams was a newspaper columnist (1920s-30s).
His "column was also famed for its unpredictable puns. When a theatre caught fire in the Basque province of Spain ... patrons were smothered trying to crowd through the single door, Adams observed sagely, 'Don't put all your Basques in one exit.' "
--- "The Time of Laughter, A Sentimental Chronicle of The Twenties," Corey Ford [1902-1969]; Little, Brown & Co. (1967).
Dark humor is the best humor.