Word: banalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount and Fenway--"Beside". Warren William as a racketeering doctor gives a good performance until the drippy ending makes him descend to banal sentimentality...
...just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student singers did their parts creditably enough but most of the Erskine lines were lost in fuzzy orchestration. Helen's 20th Century ways were described by hippety-hoppety jazz. The love waltz might have served for a routine in a banal musical show...
...second volume of Vridar Hunter's tetralogy, from George Meredith, he and his book own little else to Meredith's writing. Where "The Egoist" suggests and flashes, Mr. Fisher has sworn enmity to the principle of artistic selection; everything is written down and written through, however irrelevant or banal, and it is written simply. The result cannot be meretricious, there can be no temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called the Biblical simplicity of Fisher's style is a characteristic...
There is to be Inter-house Debating. While this will not rescue many golden minutes from dissipation in the Boylston Street beer gardens, it is to be put in the general category of steps-forward. There are several reasons for this. The first and most banal is that anything labeled inter-house is to be regarded favorably, if merely as a consolation to Mr. Harkness. Next there comes the consideration of the effect on the college. This should be beneficial if the debates do, as their advocates pretend, put the high bat on the bull session and conserve...
...could do smooth, floating arabesques. He leaped once into the air. did a picturesque wriggle and landed gracefully curled up on his side. But his dancing had little of the flowing, unbroken quality which made Nijinsky's seem like a logical supplement to the music. His choreography was banal, his company incompetent. Only in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune did he achieve the unusual. Then, in flesh-colored tights and a leafy wreath, he went through a series of postures which were a model of muscular grace...