Word: banally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Pascal makes it humorously clear that his subjects talk so interminably about sex that their actions are a self-conscious mockery. Unfortunately his dialog, which gets off to a smart start and upon which the play depends, becomes banal and repetitious...
Make Me Know It. This is a melodrama acted by Negroes, all of them with natural vigor, some with skill. But vigor and skill alike are purposeless in a banal, disorganized play which depends for impetus on such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...
...Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man. Obvious, banal, stupid, didactic, the Davis style has all the anemia of a lady's home journal...
...Shreveport, La., stunt-loving Radio Station KWKH, owned by Henderson Iron Works, rushed a plane into the air for an endurance flight to anticipate the time when endurance attempts would become too banal for public attention. The plane stayed up 128 hours. Averred E. B. Redline, flight director: malicious persons put mud in the gasoline supply...
Connie's Hot Chocolates is a ramified version of the floor show which is exhibited at a Harlem night club known as Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...