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...defeat of "Nordic claptrap orators" who are "friends of every country but their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...Lady Killer. While the murder of a young lawyer is supposed to be perpetrated in this comedy, the real victim is the spectator. The Lady Killer is a preposterous compound of claptrap and labored humor, which seems to have been written solely with an eye to the cinema rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS?Herbert S. Gorman?Huebsch ($2.00). A critique of the "most-talked-about man in modern letters" by an admirer who has abandoned the usual claptrap for eloquent and intelligent exposition. It is lucid and comprehensible. One need not necessarily be won over to Mr. Gorman's enthusiasm for Ulysses in order to pay tribute to the competence of this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Man | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Innocuous, sentimental, pleasant claptrap of the days of Charles II, written by Paul Kester, revived for Laurette Taylor. Brocade and periwigs, exclamations of " Oddsfish! " and "me lud" and "la!", a couple of "big scenes," Laurette Taylor charming and well assisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

Last but not least (to be trite), came Glazmov's "Steuka Razine". It is a fine work, equally enjoyable with or without the program. It shows clearly to a Boston audience the difference between artistic treatment of a folk-song and melodramatic claptrap, in its version of the droning Volgar bargemen's song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/4/1922 | See Source »

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