Word: jabbers
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Playsmith Dunning has done the sleazy male racketeer with no abandoned strokes because for scornful presentation it is necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress...
Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...
...began to waggle it, touching the keys. As he squeezed, there were sweets sounds; as he stretched it, it became apparent to some of his listeners that he was playing "turkey in the straw." There was a hush in the parlor until "Alf" got through. Then there was jabber of questions: "How did you learn?" . . . . Well I never! . . . Your touch is beautiful, Alf. . . . .Is it hard to play for a beginner, or was it just instinctive with you? . . . Alf, you never told us that you were musically inclined! . . . " To these questions, "Alf" answered not a word. he brushed a long...
...rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning of such a magnificent collection of words as "the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant." The results, however, of all these diversions could scarecly be worth the efforts required. No one over attempted to rationalize Jabber wocky...
...humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby, Mrs. Noftolis-are continuously excited. At home, at the theatre, at the "sisshore," they jabber at one another in a wild jargon, which appears at first glance totally incomprehensible; at second and ensuing glances, astonishingly familiar and funny. Author Gross, frizz-headed young feature man on the New York World, has been called, not without basis, a "great stylist." He is best understood when read aloud...