Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more absurd the mistakes of Mr. O'Connell-who is made a production manager-become, the more remarkable his feats appear to the cinema people. At the final curtain, when Cinemagnate Glogauer learns that by some addle-pated order of Mr. O'Connell's a gang of workmen have come to tear the studio down, he hesitates for just a moment and then cries, "Tell them to go ahead...
...likely that Novarro's ambition to become an opera star will ever be realized unless the cinema itself evolves its own form of grand opera. His voice, for all its beauty, is small-not an opera voice. Yet such a singer as Novarro would be far less absurd on a grand opera stage than the rotund divas and stout heroes of grand opera would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring...
...Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly posturing of its actors...
...possibly be produced by Garbo's deep voice. It is a voice fascinating for its monotony which, though natural to Garbo, seems deliberately assumed to sustain the intense mood of the story. She loves the clergyman but gives him up because she feels that it would be absurd to marry him. Garbo has been in better stories but none that suited better her disturbing, almost legendary fascination. Her acting confirms her position as the most important woman in the world's cinema. Gavin Gordon does well enough as the clerical hero. Best sequences: the love affair that begins...
...Duce announced that Italy will spend $26,000,000 extra this year on armaments, an "answer to France" which Le Temps of Paris, semi-official organ of the French Government, "answered back" with an editorial furiously flaying the Mussolini brothers but concluding "war against Italy would be . . most absurd...