Word: maudlinity
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...strike which ends with his getting cracked on the head by steel police. And when the police follow him into his own house, cornering him like a rat, his sister shoots one of them, is carried off to jail. All this takes place to an accompaniment of futile, maudlin ranting against things-as-they-are. A tract rather than a play, Steel does not interest, move or convince...
...asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful princess but the Erskine cow had no more inclination for weddings than Composer Gruenberg...
Miss Brice does her celebrated Jewish interpretation of Peter Pan ("It ish Dink-a-Bell!"). She is again very funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs...
Shortcomings of Melo can in no way be laid to its cast. Miss Best's interpretation is cool, crisp, sensible. She redeems a part which might very well become wretchedly maudlin. A sort of British Hope Williams, her outstanding U. S. successes have been in The High Road and These Charming People. Basil Rathbone, smooth, slick, debonair, slides through his role with his customary facility...
...bills to restore Death by electricity as the maximum Kansas punishment for first-degree murder or robbery with firearms. The last legal execution by the State was in 1870. Amid a chorus of praise and protest Governor Woodring explained: "My veto of these bills is not actuated by any maudlin sympathy for the criminal. It is axiomatic that it is not the severity but the certainty of punishment that deters the criminal. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against these bills...