Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot...
...these things as they may entertainment quite up to the standard of past Pudding ventures is in the present offering. The jokes are above average, the music is easily normal, and if the dancing is thoroughly awkward, why just remember that you can't have everything...
...scarcely to be blamed for reviving a play from her past instead of trying to find and create something new. And, everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale the social heights. She is particularly eager to bring about the marriage of her sister to wealth and position but is unable to devote her entire time...
Under the Gaslight. Since Christopher Morley and his three colleagues discovered, at their stunt theatres in Hoboken, the awkward charms of the dramas of the '60s, there has been a general scramble for these dusty manuscripts. This one is an Augustin Daly play, first produced in 1867, and, to make it just a little quainter, an old theatre in the Bowery has been resuscitated to house...
...year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North Dakota in 1922 retired Porter James McCumber from the Senate, Senator Smoot slipped his awkward frame into the chairman's seat of the potent Finance Committee?a legislative eminence comparable to the religious height of Mormon Apostle. Ever since he has dictated and executed the tax and tariff policies in Congress of the Republican administration...