Word: insipidness
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...This Is London (Fox). When Will Rogers is performing as an impediment in the insipid romance of his supposed son and a pretty English girl, and when, with his screen wife, he is giving a portrait of domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth...
Slightly Scarlet (Paramount). More than slightly foolish, this decorative melodrama of jewel thieves at work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something...
...repugnant to the slightly beaked nose of His Excellency General Ismet Pasha, now for the third time Prime Minister of Turkey, onetime victorious Commander-in-Chief on the Turkish western front in the odoriferous war with Greece. Last week bristling General Ismet decided to flay the faint, insipid, artificial perfumes which Turkish ladies buy with the guarantee: Fresh, and Direct from Paris. Said Ismet with a soldier's scornful snort: "The Government will consent no longer to having the daughters of Turkey perfumed with expensive foreign extracts...
...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
...fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...