Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stars, Frank Capra has depicted well the story of the Vanderhofs, with their fire-works, ballet-dancing, xylophones, and discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture fails, if at all, in being too long, occasionally too slow. It has departed at times from the moving picture formula of pictorial action in an attempt to gain nuance by drawn-out monologues and dialogues, which ordinarily succeed only when surcharged by the vitality of flesh and blood players...
Sherwood does not indulge in any awkward sermonizing. Instead, he quotes from Lincoln's own vibrant speeches, particularly the famed "House Divided" one, and lets their message carry forward into the present. Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a frequently inexpert play, slow in getting started, discontinuous in structure, too literary in some of its writing, too emotional in some of its appeal. But it is also a fervent play, burning fiercely with the spirit of what Lincoln, rightly or wrongly, has come to stand for in the hearts of his countrymen...
...many case, the show is slow starting, slow in development, and uninspiring in denouncement. Ina Claire as the matron is easily the outstanding asset, but she might do well to brush up on her lines...
Most dramatic game of the series was the second, in which Cub Pitcher Dizzy Dean's famed $185,000 sore arm fooled the Yankees for seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats...
Heavy, hackneyed, played too slow for melodrama, written too badly for anything else, The Devil Takes a Bride seemed to forget that it was the cast, not the audience, who are supposed to live...