Word: colorlessness
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...victory is slight, in the stage version, for the rival is made most unattractive as a man, and after the ghost of the dead husband is laid, the play degenerates into farce. Miss Nudsen is somewhat too colorless for so emotional a part; she gives it with little strength. Mr. Gilbert makes a valiant effort with the doctor's part, and puts into the play much that it lacked in the writing of it. Especially in the earlier scenes of straight comedy is he good; when it came to the ending, his skill was wasted in broad comic effects...
...Armand was sincere and moving. His earlier love scenes and his scene of denunciation were skilfully handied. But half the impassioned zest of this redeeming love affair was lost by the middle-aged reasoned and seasoned appearance of the players. The Georges Duval of M. Ravet was rather colorless and disappointing...
...during the second period. Hammond's consistent kicking, as well as the two goals which he sent over after the touchdowns and one from the field, featured for the University Churchill's dazzling run, however, so definitely decided the final outcome that the rest of the game was quite colorless...
...those "mannerisms" that so easily become exaggerated. Lastly, the third important part was that of Talleyrand, which Conrad Salinger '23, played with an authority and a penetration that often made me forget I was not listening to a professional actor of ripe experience. Physical appearance, poses, ironical, cynical, often colorless voice, glances that expressed more than his lips dared pronounce, shrewdness and flattery, extreme courtesy and insulting superiority,--all these he combined into a whole that does him the greatest credit. The other roles were all very competently taken
...revue cannot be anything more than glorified vaudeville, but certainly something can be expected above the ordinary round of stars going through their acts; and it was this "something" that was lacking on Monday night. Excellent bits there were, yes; but on the whole the performance bordered on the colorless...