Word: dialogic
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...latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music, movies, lantern slides. Most of the dialog runs between an omniscient Voice issuing from a loudspeaker and a Little Man who springs out of the audience and wants to know...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part of the playwright and his actors...
...reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright Anderson's return to colloquial speech...
...girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...