Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice little show,' he can't say it that way in print. He has to come from the opening and say it's brilliant, it's wonderful." As a result, many a producer and director charges the critics with too often being "shallow" or "dull." "When a critic praises a play," says the Mirror's Coleman, "he is a wonderful critic . . . When he pans one, he is destructive, monstrous, unintelligent." Director Margaret Webster sums it up simply: "Bad notices will cook you. It's impossible to grin and bear...
Like other movie stories about the lives of famous entertainers, the picture has three problems: to 1) find somebody to impersonate the entertainer who not only looks like him but can act like him too; 2) inject a little drama into the dull routine of success; 3) follow the facts of the subject's life without bringing on a libel suit...
...minute sudden death overtime, both teams showed just how tired they were the puck consistently was kept in the center zone by slow, dull passing. It seemed neither team wanted to risk an all-out attack...
...reprises and a chorus of "In the Good Old Summertime." She does have a minute to herself in the third scene when she dances with little Robert Jennings, but the enthusiasm of the audience goes unrewarded and the play plods forward without an encore. By cutting some of the dull subplot of ingenue Carol Leigh and dancer Ray Malone, the producers could add a raucous number to Miss Booth's vaudeville scene. She belted out such songs in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and another would brighten the second...
Thomas Gaydos is largely, successful in the part. With his full and well-modulated voice he can put across the long sermon between acts which might easily have been dull. And Gaydos' Becket is always a mature, gentle figure. Except at the very end, however, he lacks the fullness of power that Thomas must also have throughout. For "Murder in the Cathedral" is not a play of growth. Thomas does not suddenly seize on the power which he takes to his death. He had it, Eliot explains, over since he resigned the Chancellorship to devote his whole being...