Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creation; Basil Sydney's La Ruse is morbid and passionate; the lesser parts are splendidly done. Yet only in the last act do these characters produce the witty, sardonic tensions which you expect of them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with...
...passion for a ballroom dancer. In her intrigues Miss George seems wise, affectionate and lovely. Mr. Matthews, pointing his speech with subtle sigh, grunt and grumble, gives a human, extremely funny portrait of a boyish sort of man whose most serious follies must inevitably be ingenuous and disarming. The dialog is sedately witty rather than wisecracking - remarking how, on the basis of deportment, it is difficult nowadays to tell the sexes apart, Miss George observes : "Why, just today I received a letter addressed, 'Dear Sir or Madame...