Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tender; as he turned to take his medicine, his eyebrows rose with gratitude and the curtain fell. There are those plays so delicately, so truly funny that one forgets to laugh until a perhaps clumsy joke, inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse of amusement that a superlative dialog has laid. Caprice is such a play. "You are the most abandoned woman I have ever known," says Albert to lisa, and she replies, "Abandoned? No one has ever abandoned me!" It is a college quip which serves less as a cause than an excuse for laughter. Caprice...
...Masks of the Devil. Author Henry James in parentheses, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live...
...predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...
...apparently the conviction of Author Owen Davis, makes the playwright perfect. Nor is the conviction betrayed in this, the latest of more than 250 Davis dramas, wherein a comparatively improbable situation and an unlikely plot are made to seem funny and exciting by turns, owing to smart dialog and skillful construction...
Rakish is Broadway's Betty Compton. She sways in luscious curves about the stage. With a maximum of temptation she ululates the ditties of the Gershwin brothers. Friskily she tapdances. Languidly she intones between-us-girls dialog. People ogle through their binoculars, applaud mightily. Yet in 148 years no one will remember...