Word: franticness
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...long Will Tilden, these five years kingpin of terrestrial tennis, there was little gaiety in him that evening. It was the third successive time this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes...
...here. Robert Woolsey is only a moderately funny fellow, usually concerning himself with musical comedy. Yet his performance will unquestionably go down as one of the most conscientious of the year. He worked with incredible diligence and in spots succeeded in putting even Honest Liars across. It is a frantic and feeble farce about a sanitarium. A mad group of characters, a pair of twins and an operation combine and recombine rapidly. Most of the jokes were old and none of the complications excruciating...
...Harrison Ford). The old stage farce which became entangled with the police in 1924 has been revived, slightly pasteurized, for the screen. It is a story of a girl's silk undershirt and how it pursued her doggedly through various love affairs. It is a farce of the frantic, door-slamming variety, and fairly funny...
...lonely females pretend they are married, seeking behind this pretense men with millions. To their dismay the principal prospect turns out to be a fifty-cent tailor. Later they locate their fated loves. Miss Logan, always one of the loveliest of stars and Miss Fazenda, returning to her frantic low comedy methods of the early days, performed pleasantly...
...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...