Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics have had much to any about "Riptide" and most of their mouthings have not been too favorable toward the attempts of Norma Shearer in this drama but a casual observer of the movie would, the Playgoer thinks, be much more lenient...
...compositions, the same enthusiasm is present. The man that composed "Mary Had a Little Lamb" regards his associateship at Dunster House and his concerts before the House in approximately the same way. Neither seriousness nor enthusiasm displace each other; but the seriousness is present more than the casual observer realizes...
Twenty Million Sweethearts (First National). Like We're Not Dressing (see below), this is a casual musicomedy in which there are no chorus girls and most of the songs are allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...most sincere, and for that reason perhaps the best contribution is the story, "Community Nurse" by J. A. Strauss. The self-conscious detachment which the criticism labored to maintain is here replaced by an unaffected and sensitive objectivity. It is true that the realism is frequently too studiously casual, yet the tension and the pathos of a small town in the Southwest have been caught with remarkable fidelity. The articulation of the story is sometimes creaky; Jack and Laura, for instance, as characters are lorded more heavily than their shoulders can bear. Yet it would be well...
...Village Wooing succeeded to a degree that will discomfit the author if he ever hears about it. The Dallas Little Theatre audience . . . blithely unimpressed by its history-making function, laughed often and loudly at the Immortal's casual scherzo and damned it as the most pleasant entertainment on the precincts since Ten Nights in a Bar Room...