Word: inept
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...assemblage, no recital of Inventor Edison's history was needful. Too well known was the story of the Ohio youth inept at books, fond of dabbling with chemicals, both greengrocer and publisher in his teens, boxed on the ears (and deafened for life) by a furious conductor because a stick of phosphorus started a fire in the mail car in which he traveled with his printing office and chemicals (he was selling magazines on trains at the time and had a laboratory in one end of the mail car), and later of the young telegraph operator with the itch...
...father of the house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer's experience...
...Some ten months ago, this entertainment was unveiled in Greenwich Village under the title of The Leap. Recast and rewritten, it is now uptown. The opening audience could not determine why. On the whole, it seemed one of the most aimless and inept productions of the year. The plot tells of a man who involved himself with a daughter when he thought he was addressing her mother...
Exiles. James Joyce is the extraordinary Irishman who wrote Ulysses and gained a position unique in English literature. Exiles is his only play, an uncommercial product which the Neighborhood Players made more uncommercial by a considerable supply of inept acting. The play itself is a rigorous psychological study of four Irish people. The wife loves the husband's friend; the husband has his own affinity. Yet they love each other and sit down to have the whole thing out. Most humans would have grabbed each other and tired of the affair before Joyce's characters stop talking about it. They...
Toulouse-Lautrec, hiding his spindle legs under a square table, would sit with his glass between his fingers, blowing his smoke out into the vacancy of a dream. Born aristocrat, heir to great wealth, his spine had been injured when he was a boy. The inept surgery of the time had left him painfully deformed. Unable to endure the sympathy of his lackeys, he renounced privilege, went to live in Montmartre, painted what he saw there...