Word: staccatoed
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GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE-A thin comedy of infelicity made to sit up and take nourishment by the staccato brilliance of Ina Claire...
...comedy, like plucked strings. Kay Johnson (girl-across-the-hall) and the rest of the well-matched company are capital, particularly the lovely Grethe Ruzt-Nissen in a dance pantomime to Deems Taylor's bright, soap-bubble music. In a smoothly varied performance Woodman Thompson's staccato, expressionistic sets behave better than in Roger Bloomer. (TIME, March...
...returned to Manhattan from San Francisco and is again becoming immersed in the lit-erary-social life of the metropolis. She is a very handsome woman, more striking than ever in a dark suit, a small dark hat, her pale yellow hair done close to her head, talking in staccato and determined tones-a remarkable woman in more ways than...
...Harvard prize play, seems not uninfluenced by the Cambridge atmosphere?exceedingly polite, witty, moderately well-dressed. Below this brilliantly prepared surface is a foundation theme of considerable consequence. Strongly in its favor is the symmetry of its construction?a virtue lacking in The Potters, a staccato satire on middle class husbands...
...POTTERS-Staccato commentary on the kind of man George F. Babbitt might have been had he never made any money...