Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross...
...John Riddell Murder Case," "Salt Water Taffy," or the barbed shafts in Vanity Fair will find this book the most amusing thing John Riddell has yet done; those who have not yet become acquainted with his inimitable parodies could find no better introduction. Not a moment of it is dull. In a few words it makes the most honored of our gods ridiculous...
Westward Passage (RKO) improves on Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel but is still dull, incredible. It purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt...
...considered at great length for it is immeasurably worse. "Shop Angel" is the name that appears on the screen but one is forced, upon a close examination of the heroine, to feel that the unpleasant word "worn" was deleted from the title by the careful producers. A very dull work it is, that seems to go on merely because the company had about five thousand feet of film to use up before declaring bankruptcy. It is all about a good girl who works in a company and who, despite the warnings of her friends, goes to visit her employer...
...this year's graduating class will be placed in jobs by the School employment bureau, bears definite indication of the importance now laid on professionalized training. A second conclusion is that there is a need today for highly trained men at a time when business in general is dull. Present conditions of course influence the number of employment opportunities; and yet the general trend toward specialized business training is of longer standing than the present slump...