Word: franticness
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...passes two acts flowing about in crinolines. The plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...
...playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...
That unsavory gentleman, irate because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
Newspapers depend on the telephone perhaps more than any industry for the swift transmission of their business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...
Paradise. In a small Ohio town, life was miserable for Winnie Elder; her family hated her because she was not married. Frantic, she went to New York. Proudly she returned in some months with the body of her husband in a coffin. An inquisitive aunt nosed out the news it was not her husband, but a body she bought at the morgue. Some potent playing by Lillian Foster did not suffice to make a rigidly effective whole...