Word: dialogic
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...murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them will feel, however, that for once Hammett's naturalism has taken him too far, when Nick's wife asks her husband a question rarely, if ever, seen in print...
...member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests for the chorus. The picture cost $1,100,000. The result is an extraordinary rigmarole containing everything from chariot races to a torch song by Ruth Etting...
...kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...
...Fourth Concerto easily, quietly, without once tossing his head or flinging his hands ostentatiously into the air. For his audience he made Beethoven all-sufficient-with the clarity of his phrasing, the prismatic shading of his tone color, the way in the second, slow movement he carried on a dialog with the orchestra, pleading tenderly with the strings which had set themselves sternly in unison against...
...valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith in the glamour of actresses-and then meets one. Neatest job of the lot: "Here We Are," a dialog between bride and groom just after the wedding; few experienced husbands or wives will be able to restrain their shouts over this...