Word: banally
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Saturday is not usually much of a day for the Vagabond to make his rounds of the lecture haunts. And were it not banal to talk about the weather it might well be added that these blue skies shine on other paths besides those of board which lead to Sever and the like of Sever. Now this may not be an enthusiastic introduction to the lectures of the day. But stop and consider, any manifestation of interest in things academic under present conditions is a certain sign of something in the offing worth listening...
...bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...
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...