Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season. Sample, when Maizie is angling for a job on Body & Brain: "I can hear my mother say take good care of your body, Maizie, because...
...Maxwell Anderson's play, transferred to the screen by Producer Pandro S. Herman with such honesty, intelligence and skill that it betters its original. By abbreviating some of Author Anderson's less appropriate flights of poetry, Anthony Veiller, who wrote the screen play, improved the dialog. RKO's art director, Van Nest Polglase, taking his key from the stage sets designed...
...Cole Porter words and Eleanor Powell tapping out her specialized magic, the whole cast suddenly gives out the feeling that comes to a show when all hands are tops in their lines and happy with what they are doing. Plot is forgotten, the Christmas tree is spangled with dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties, three of which stand out: Reginald Gardiner as a park policeman leading an invisible orchestra; Barnett Parker as a sissy floorwalker demonstrating a model home; a ballroom dance number by Georges & Jama. Best songs...
Consensus on the first play of the Guild's 19th subscription season seemed to be that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...
...Turney's studiously poetic dialog lacks the full-blooded majesty and thunder that would have enabled it to prevail against the magnificent settings of Jo Mielziner. And Actresses Mendelssohn and Roos, playing their parts like transplanted Lady Macbeths, reduce the play to the proportions of a family feud among the Borgias...