Word: banally
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...Utterly banal in theme and rather juvenile in treatment, the play succeeds moderately as amusement, largely due to the persuasive personality of the star...
...Harvard Dramatic Club a position of definite standing in the American theatrical world. If the plays selected up to date are open to the criticism of appealing more to an audience of a distinctly intellectual cast, they have at least most effectively preserved the club from falling into the banal outworn comedy type of organization so common in other universities...
...current play he has the part of an Irish ditchdigger who cures by homemade homilies paralysis in a wealthy banker. This artless theme will undoubtedly stir the heart strings and purse strings of thousands. To the faintly intelligent it will be incredibly banal. One almost expects Mr. Hodge to rush from the stage after the final curtain, shake each individual visitor by the hand and kiss good-bye the little girls in pigtails...
...Curtis' son-in-law, Edward W. Bok. After speaking of Mr. Curtis as "the Philadelphia Barabbas" and of Mr. Bok (whom he insists on calling Edwin W. Bok) as " a quite unusual Babbitt," Mr. Mencken concludes with this indictment: " A bad, bad book. An incredibly mushy, banal, tedious and preposterous book...
...Fool Your Wife. A banal triangle-story of "fashionable society" produced in the usual deluxe, ooze-leather edition way. The chief characters rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing revel occurs at Miami in which all the guests have taken the wise precaution of substituting swimming gear for the more usual undies. The subtitles suit the picture-they are, most of them, of the "When came the dawnlight" school...