Word: insipidities
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Astounding quantities of insipid British blends pour out, of the Wellesley teapots every day. The faculty has teas for students. The students have teas for the faculty. The faculty and administration swap teas. Every dormitory has a weekly tea. Societies bring in new pledges through a system of "open" and "closed" teas. Teas vary in tone from the high-heeled formality of administrative, faculty, and alumnae gatherings to the lower echelon custom of assuming varying degrees of proximity to the floor...
...high standard set by even the bit players is the Old Vie experience of many of them. John Howard Davies, as "the boy who asked for more," is far, far removed from our Dean Stock-wells. The difference is that he is an actor, not merely a cute but insipid child. Davies' performance is beautifully modulated to show Oliver's timid yet occasionally bold nature...
This battle of sexes, collision of races and conflict of ideas, this spectacle of a king learning to govern from a governess, is sometimes touching, and far less insipid than the usual musicomedy romance. Gertrude Lawrence plays Anna with bright, at times even glaring, charm, and with the versatility of a governess particularly qualified to teach singing & dancing. Yul Brynner plays the King with scowling magnetism-with a born fierceness of manner that cannot hide his growing moral confusion...
...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...
...plot is very flimsy, substituting the eternal hexagon for the eternal triangle. Although acquitted by a hung jury, the hero, Richard Todd, is still suspected of murdering his evil, beautiful wife. Since Todd gives such an insipid performance, it is difficult to believe that the could murder anything. A New Yorker, played with incredible shallowness by Ruth Roman, decides to prove this after their very first encounter. Their personalities undergo a radical change every ten minutes, and every change is more trite than the one before. The result is no personality...