Word: stagey
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...picture's stagey Hollywood premiere, many a private chuckle mingled with the applause for an amusing, well constructed musical, for Hollywood realized that the Warners script writers and director had just let Lolly be herself...
...Dickie Moore can be identified as a death car the instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance...
Metropolitan stage shows are always pleasing to the eye. Their costuming is novel and the scenery full of startling color combinations without being stagey. We only wish they would present some act other than 1. A contortionist. 2. Anapache dance. 3. A bunch of acrobats. We have no grievance against these phenomena of vaudeville, but it does seem that there must be others...
...characters are vital. The descriptions last behind closed eyes. And the narrative at times mounts to heights of power. In spots the author's craft becomes stagey and he permits here and there an anachronism of expression in the mouth of a character. Perhaps the greatest tribute payable to books of the sort can be paid to All Ye People. Though living in the time of the fulfillment, the reader feels not triteness in the prophecy he has seen realized. He finishes the book with a sense of anticipation and exultation, exultation skin to that of John Bray...
After a seven-month separation while the Fox publicity department astutely built up popular demand for their reappearance together, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each...