Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roof. The English theatre can be as sentimental as it can be grim. In this play, sentimental John Galsworthy, assisted by sentimental Producer Charles Hopkins, has demonstrated an overwhelming faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman...
Edward Pawley's acting, Cleon Throck-morton's fast-moving sets, Egon Brecher's wise direction, the novelty of the idea for the stage make Two Seconds interesting, sometimes impressive. The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile...
...Grim and sordid though it may be, Payment Deferred is the most interesting, most plausible and perfectly fashioned play yet to appear this season. Producer Gilbert Miller has already lined his pockets with the money Payment Deferred made in London in the early summer. For the play's success he has chiefly to thank Actor Charles Laughton, Mr. Marble...
...Grim Reaper steps up to claim not one but three members of the cast. One is gored by a bull, another is murdered, the third is shot accidentally. The play is temporarily interrupted to permit some more-than-half naked chorus girls to cavort in cafe and carnival scenes and to introduce one song, "Taking Off," which has a very pleasant swing...
...history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last met with a situation with which he is utterly unable to cope. He has run headlong into a trap masked with the deceptive laurels of a Degree with Honors, which has turned out but another camouflage for those grim gentlemen, The Ancient Authors...