Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
Revolution, Aaron closed his law books and joined the Continental Army before Boston, but the siege was dull, and he set out with 1100 others under Colonel Benedict Arnold to branch up through Maine and capture Quebec. They had terrible hardships on the journey. Before reaching their destination they almost starved. On the last day of the year Captain Burr, 19, on the staff of General Montgomery was at his commander's side when the latter was killed in a storming operation. The young Captain tried to carry the big General off the field but was not strong enough...
...murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with...
...Nurse. Musical comedy of the middle grade is difficult to discuss. It is never stimulating and never wholly dull. Usually a musical comedy of this type has two or three outstanding events. In the present opus these were: the clowning of May Boley and Don Barclay, a tune...
...Devil to Pay. The artistic and intermittently successful Stagers have picked a particularly dull piece for their second try of the season (their first was A Man's Man, one of the best in town). They took a play from the Dutch dramatist, Herman Heijermans, a play that has been exceptionally successful in Holland...