Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was in no great hurry to cross the Atlantic after its London production (TIME, May 10, 1943). Now it is here, only Noel Coward addicts need be in a hurry to see it. Barring a few funny lines, it is pretty barren folderol about the life, loves and self-appreciation of a British matinee idol...
Fraternity Folderol. There are now 80-odd student veterans at the University of Southern California, some of them in their third semester. From the start they have had trouble with the fraternities. To many of them fraternity folderol seemed childish, fraternity members immature. They formed their own club, the Trovets (Trojan Veterans).* Fraternity pride was deeply hurt. At first the fraternities tried to control the Trovets, since then have been openly hostile to it. On several occasions notices and reports of Trovet meetings submitted to The Daily Trojan have been "somehow misplaced...
Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
...writing something of matchless newness in the world's literary history. He wrote the first half of the book "more to be at work than anything else," laid it by unfinished for six years, then added some of the most magnificent chapters in U.S. literature and a folderol ending. For Mark, says DeVoto, "felt no difference in value between the highest truths of fiction and merely literary burlesque." He had almost no ability to "think and feel [his material] through to its own implicit form." He jotted down and never touched ideas like these...
...crack songwriting team (willowy Ann Sothern and stuffy Robert Young) splits up because its male member is too fond of wallowing in high society. They divorce and become separate failures. They remarry and click again. Then, for unco good measure, they very nearly repeat the routine. This folderol consumes no minutes...