Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy we are finding it very difficult to play 'Strange Interlude' as it should be done. To begin with, we were accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
...Boston censors are peculiar; they banned our play, and let 'Volpone', in Zweig's version of Ben Jonson's rare bit, run merrily on when the Guild presented it here last spring. I don't see that 'Strange Interlude' is as bad for public consumption as 'Volpone'. Perhaps Ben Jonson's bad taste is classic, while Eugene O'Neill's is--well, the Boston censors have their opinion, it seems...
...image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...expected that they would surpass themselves in distance and time aloft. But the longest duration was 28 hours, by Belgium's Capt. Ernest Demuyter, winner of four James Gordon Bennett races. He landed only 230 miles from his takeoff. That was comparatively not so bad for the unofficial winner of the race, Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber engineer and twice before a Race winner, traveled only 347 miles, poorest winning distance of any of the 18 races so far held...
...Hollywood, an insurance company hired agents to get information on the morals of cinema people applying for policies. Those intimate with the wives, husbands of others, those who patronize bootleggers, stay up late, were recently refused policies as bad risks...