Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents, waked out of Christmastime daydreams, rushed to their typewriters. In dull news season, Congressman Upshaw made many a first page next morning. A few days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every...
...captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...
...repressed. She would like to have Caretaker Freddy take care of her. Frightened, as an excuse for leaving, he invents for himself a-mistress in London to whom he must repair. By chance he selects the name of Mr. Gommery's actress. This mock disclosure precipitates an extremely dull, English-accented farce in the P. G. Wodehouse manner but without the Wodehumor. C. Stafford Dickens is playwright and Gommery. Raymond Walburn is Freddy...
...brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born believers" the world's happiest people. But it was not inevitable that a great nature's simplicity should have been made to seem dull. Author Bugnet can remember only five Foch anecdotes which seem to him worth telling. As for the Fochian philosophy-"Know what you will and do it. . . . One's value consists only in what one does"-it was, according to the Bugnet account, expressed only in countless bromides and repetitions...
More objectively treated, it would have been great. Reverence weighs it down and makes it dull. The characters act pompously, as though never forgetting for a second that the things they are doing are described in all history books. Routine shots: Eugene Kloepfer as Luther writing his theses against indulgences-arguing before the Diet at Worms. Two Weeks Off (First National). Without being particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable...