Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Harrison: "Senator Smoot's inconsistencies ... a sham and a pretense. ... As a matter of fact . . . Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Persia, Uruguay, Mexico and Honduras protested as governments. . . . Those protests are general and significant in character. . . ."
The Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in...
Evidently the person writing these briefs of "People" either knows nothing of the very remarkable book with all its beauty and philosophy, or he is prejudiced and meant to slur the character which Miss Barrymore will portray in this play. . . .
Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze...
More objectively treated, it would have been great. Reverence weighs it down and makes it dull. The characters act pompously, as though never forgetting for a second that the things they are doing are described in all history books. Routine shots: Eugene Kloepfer as Luther writing his theses against indulgences...