Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood tycoons come to grips over the possession of a boy-actor; the one with the more childish psychology wins...
...Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor by ubiquitous property men. First nighters found all this to their liking, thought dainty, wide-eyed Helen Chandler looked lovely as a sprig...
...seems to me a matter of principle that when one arrives at the age and maturity of a college undergraduate there should be no childish measures to force compliance to all sorts of rules and minimum requirements and regulations limiting to freedom. A great part of the education of every student, and this of course includes your sub marginal group who could not "live up to the standards and responsibilities of the Tutorial System," is the training he gets in being on his own responsibility, in the kind of self-discipline he will have to have in after-life...
...other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just as communicative standing still. She spoke with her eyes, her wide childish grin, her expressive hands. European critics have likened her to Charlie Chaplin and the great Swiss Clown Crock. Though the comparison scarcely seemed warranted last week, she did prove herself a rare entertainer...
Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost...