Word: boredoms
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...latter had a difficult role as Mary Magdalen and articulated through it in a creditable fashion. The lowest form of wit seemed to tickle Unicorn, H. B. Wesselman '32, too often for the best delivery of his lines. Seven cocktails in a coffin, drunk on the way to boredom by R. R. Wallstein '32 as the Mandarin, were drunk with effect on the sparsely planted audience. The rest of the cast did well enough...
Maryalice Cobb, a Radcliffe graduate, will portray "The Lady," whose quest of a cure for boredom provides the unusual and diverting plot. Marie Haas, Radcliffe '31, and Barbara Wertheim, Radcliffe '33, have been assigned the remaining feminine roles. Both have been active in Idler productions...
...strange chance a young lady of quality should happen upon a copy of the current Police Gazette ("the leading illustrated sporting journal in the world") she might glance casually at the photos of showgirls and boxers, wrinkle her nose over some of the advertisements, then in boredom toss the pink sheet aside...
...with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither and yon for the bafflement of the audience. But you can't fool skilled observers. It's sex, and, incidentally, one of the most abortive attempts at entertainment that Hollywood has seen...
Somerset Maugham writes a workman-like novel; easy to read, witty, sardonic, realistic, far from the borderline of boredom. He does not believe in "great" books; has never written, will never write one. His habitual bitterness, whether natural or acquired, has become part of his stock-in-trade. He now uses it effectively, usually cloaks it in brusque but polite irony...