Word: staccatos
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...Asch has crammed a lot into this staccato, cinematic account-none the less a faithful picture for being jumbled, strident, cacophonous, blaring. Pay Day has this advantage over the newsreel any Manhattanite, any urbanite, performs in every day; it has been edited, cut, captioned by an author-cinemartist. The result is a good movie...
Last week in the law offices behind this sign was a hustle-and-bustle indicative of a prime event. Clerks scuttled across thick-rugged floors in more-than-ordinary haste. Lawyers swung in and out of doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion...
...Mysterious Island (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The strangely prescient fantasies of Jules Verne are essentially scenarios, and good ones. Monstrous engines, undiscoverable worlds, half-human and superhuman people which no words, even when manipulated with Verne's genius for combining the staccato and the nebulous, could quite make real, become more interesting when you see them concretely produced for the camera. This is one of Verne's submarine pieces. Director Lucien Hubbard has caught the right atmosphere and Lionel Barrymore seems to enjoy his role as the submarine builder and conqueror of the fish-men of the ocean bottom...
Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot...
Getting Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...