Word: overwritten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappointment that this Machiavelli, played by Henry Hull, written by one Lemist Esler (Yale Drama School product), and directed by William A. Brady Jr., was not, as history has imagined him, a murderous medieval wardheeler but on the contrary, a single-hearted patriot whose love-life was unfortunate. An overwritten text and an overdressed cast somehow made it seem improbable, uninteresting...
...undertones of the play are powerful, startling, exquisite. As overwritten by Mr. Milne, overacted by Henry Hull, overproduced, it becomes a despair to the intelligent, most of whom honor Mr. Milne at his best;* and Henry Hull likewise (Lulu Belle). Mr. Hull mincing with earnestness, gurgles: "I am only a young man and I want to know. . . ." Helen Chandler, pitched into the role of a romantic maiden after two days' rehearsal, trembled prettily...
...time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson...