Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group of Russel Markert dancers and a burlesque called the Russian Chloral Society, the events are reminiscent of a bad afternoon at Keith's. Jimmy Carr's expert dance band is in the pit, but unfortunately...
...winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
...Constant Nymph (British). This silent adaptation of Margaret Kennedy's novel has faults which no U. S. producer would have allowed. The lighting is bad; the direction is prosaic; the photography is dull except for some fine shots of the Austrian Tyrol; the actors are obviously actors; the subtitles are verbose. It suffers also the phrases of incontinuity inevitable in a picture made from a long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged...
...spite of dull 2,000,000-share stock market days last week some specialty stocks remained buoyantly active. Utilities, congenitally defiant of the financial laws of gravity, were particularly strong. In addition to the general potency of such words "as "superpower," "giant power," they were inspired by rumor of mergers in New York State utility companies. Over-the-counter houses were selling shares in the new company before its formation was officially announced. Parties to the merger, described as a Morgan-Schoellkopf-Carlisle union, were...
Then to Roseland from Boston and the front rank of U. S. tycoons came Archibald Robertson Graustein, head of the International Paper Co. (now subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.). Great was Mr. Graustein's place and many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate...