Word: patheticism
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Since Mother is played by Mary Boland, Lullaby is considerably more farcical than Freudian. And since Mother-when not making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of...
In special classes of 20 and with sym pathetic teachers, they began to pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all...
But far from spoiling the entire film, the mediocre effects offer a forceful contrast to the great moments in this "Hunchback." Laughton is magnificent at the Feast of Fools and in the pathetic tower sequence with Esmeralda. The crowd scenes are uniformly impressive, and the film in all is more...
The first of the issue's journeys into the juvenile is Nathaniel La Mar's story of Lonny, an albino boy. Writing in the first person, the author poignantly follows the boy's state of mind from pathetic loneliness to sadistic happiness. Mr. La Mar connects the incidents of the...
The Trip is an honestly meant play by a competent playwright. But it puts Playwright Foote in much the same plight as his old Mrs. Watts. In a sense, he is running away from his material-and to as ghostly a destination. What begins as sharp domestic drama drifts into...