Word: drivel
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...Mistress Mine marks the soth time that Lunt & Fontanne have played together on Broadway. Since 1924 they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...
...spectacle of Astairs gracelessly leaping through excessively arty routines, overwhelmed by colossal settings, is hardly peasant. And those who saw Miss Natwick as Madame Arcati in "Blithe Spirit" will not exactly enjoy the Zazu Pitts-ish drivel she must toss to the 35 cent seats...
...Perelman is one of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on three wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago he started pounding off the drivel on the 47-key machine, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, the Laffmovie, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and--this'll kill ya-Zeppo) are some of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on twelve wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago they started pounding off the drivel on the celluloid reels, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, mentioned above, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...Priestly, blunt-penned British novelist, decried his countrymen's subjection to American films-"to sit through trash that was never meant for them but for school children out in the Middle West." His emancipation plan: "stop this American . . . film drivel...