Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most consistently dull piece of entertainment in the city of Boston at the present time is the Sportsman's show at the Mechanics Building. Ostensibly an exhibit of sporting goods and things pertaining to sport in general, it is in reality a third-rate country fair without the horse races and the fresh...
...when all the members of the troupe shout their riot cry to start things moving, and a fire with Lee Tracy's little boy supposedly locked in a box within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting best sets off a jewel, that their vaudeville may better shine beside a poor film. However that may be, the vaudeville is entertaining and the screen fare distinctly second rate...
...orders his cavalry to charge instead of trying to arrange a merger. Whatever the effect of The Iron Duke may be on Mr. Arliss' ambitions for knighthood, it is likely to be greater than the film's effect upon the U. S. public. Handsome, obsequious and dull, this British picture presents history diluted but not improved by fiction. Liveliest shot: "Boney'' showing Wellington he is no gentleman by shooting...
...Arcot into a subtitle, while devoting extensive footage to the efforts of Margaret Clive (Loretta Young) to keep her husband (Ronald Colman) in England when he felt that his destiny lay in India. Its virtue is that no account of such a career could be more than occasionally dull. Ronald Colman (minus the mustache which has long been his trademark) and Loretta Young manage to give lively performances without losing 18th Century decorum. During the battle of Plassey, with armored elephants charging like tanks, during dive's bitter reply to his detractors on the floor of the House...
...audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front. But his Bach was anything but dull. The many pianists who heard him marveled at the design of each phrase, the variety and vitality which suffused everything he played. Laymen forgot that they had ever associated Bach with their youthful five-finger exercises and the stern ticking of a metronome...