Word: dialogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances...
...whole story, not simply the dialog, is told in hillbilly tongue; the cumulative effect is to make The Woods Colt a prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty right this minute, they shore are. The leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with...
KINGDOM COMING-Roark Bradford- Harper ($2.50). Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (from which Marc Connelly shaped his 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo...
Outmoded in other respects, Director DeMille still has two assets which his confreres may well envy-an unabashed sincerity, an utterly individual style. Even in so poor a picture as This Day and Age, DeMille's crowd scenes, his overemphatic tricks of narration, his kindergarten dialog, produce a queer effect of compelling attention without being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best...
Muddled about what it is trying to say and sententious when it finds the answer, No Marriage Ties nonetheless manages to make Bruce Foster an interesting individual. It was an inspiration to have H. W. Hanemann write dialog for the story. His breathtaking puns, doubtless conceived in the hope of making Foster seem a wit rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait. When Foster wakes up with a hangover and finds a girl in his apartment, he says: "Women are all soul and men are all heels." Another one comes when he has replaced pajamas with...