Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scylla and Charybdis of modern life and academic needs to steer between, he has the waters of misunderstanding and prejudice through which to make his patient way. For when he becomes ironic he loses his prestige as a scholar, and when he loses his irony he becomes dull. Then newspapers and journals to quote George Ross in the "Atlantic"--send back his efforts, kindly but with little scruple about his past prestige. But more than all he must weather the shoals of thought into which the winds of mere courtesy to the world outside continually force him. Last...
Burdened with a cold, with a tolerably dull score, and with a story modelled too closely on "Naughty Cinderella", Mitzi played gallantly along, unrewarded by the applause of former years. But although Mitzi's famous love song had given appropriate place to "Plant Roses in Memory's Garden", just another lyric, "Naughty Riquette" was at times as great entertainment as we ever want to see. And the reason for that may be summed up in the two words, Stanley Lupino...
...having seen the worst half of "His People" first, and the first part last, we found it a tolerably dull production. From advance notices, we know that others in better authority caught the thrill of this little Jewish household and admired the skill of Rudolph Schildekraut in the leading part. Mr. Schildekraut's work was always effective, but the direction is not equal to the task of stressing one character. We are thinking now of "The Last Laugh" in which everything was subordinated to the person of Emile Jannings in the guise of an old wash-room attendant. Director Murnan...
Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl...
...admirably in Stella Dallas, have another mother and daughter fable. Most of it is in Monte Carlo. Lowell Sherman, James Kirkwood and Ben Lyon are the males involved. Mother turns virtuous, daughter gets a good husband, and Lowell Sherman is consigned to a watery grave. It is a pretty dull film...