Word: maudlinity
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...Maudlin, Perhaps, But Gripping...
...mother's who elects himself as her guardian and educates her so that she may be "desirable" is as bland and gracious as ever. The role of the actress mother is capably handled by Vera Teasdale. Though at times the acting is overdone and the story turns to maudlin sentimentality, the charm of the young girl struggling to learn about life and love is enough to overcome and obliterate these defects of presentation...
...Dillinger, we hear, was loudly applauded when his frank and honest face appeared on the screen of a Chicago cinema. Never having seen the Robin Hood in this tough of the prairies, this maudlin applause seems quite out of place; almost as much as a lynching itself. If Chicago audiences want to cheer the underdog, let them do it heartily, but it would be better to get him first, and prove that he is the underdog. At present he is probably motoring through the Middle West, spraying the corn and the farmers with his automatic exterminator...
...public. A few excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise the general level and would allow the theatre owners to select pictures on the basis of their merits...
...power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical as they may be, they cannot fail to be moved profoundly by maudlin sadism...