Word: morbidness
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Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...
...East. He plugs Jell-O and Maxwell House Coffee for General Foods all over the China Coast. His offers of recipe books in exchange for boxtops have attracted responses from spots 1,700 miles from Shanghai. His fan mail runs to some 500 letters a month, including morbid epistles from moody Japanese...
...past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...
...automobiles-learned to their dismay that they did not have enough airplanes to fight the kind of war Hitler had loosed on the world, did not have enough trained men to build the plants that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give...
...girls' boarding school, Claudine is obsessed by a jealously possessive love for one of her women teachers. At the most trivial provocation she flings herself from hysterical joy into psychopathic outbursts of grief. That these are the natural symptons of budding love, is pounded into the wincing spectator with morbid persistence...