Word: naivet
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...expression of befuddlement. He was a bewildered drunk in innumerable pictures before his ability got him, in Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work...
...Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook records these matters with a humble sympathy rather than the traditional amused condescension. His humor he reserves for black naivetés, his condescension for white stupidities. The result is a thoroughly fascinating Voodoo document, interspersed with comic relief. The "Magic Island" is Haiti, four days off the Atlantic Coast...
...then Eve. (Then he gets a son. The gaieties of Author Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious as ever; and now as he points out once more the original sophistication of woman and the enduring naiveté of the male, he can be called shallow or specious, but he cannot be called dull...
...event caused no great excitement on the long shore of Lake Erie. As a "visitor in the home" the Times had been more notable for naiveté than for force or brilliance. But newspaperdom watched the movements of the Times's unhorsed chief, Publisher-Editor Earle Martin, whose transfer from the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press last summer had given rise to the notion that the Plain Dealer was to have a worthy competitor (TIME, June 14). Earle Martin, onetime crack editor of the Scripps-Howard syndicate, was now at large again. . . . Earle Martin bought railroad tickets to Florida, said...
...production disappoints. Irene Bordoni, brilliant, charming in her own, more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...