Word: staled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vivid, Big Blow is also crude. Its startling picture is half-spoiled by a stale plot. Its genuine drama of the hurricane is tarnished by the regulation melodrama of the hack. For its effectiveness. Big Blow can thank its subject, not its playwright...
Missouri Legend is stale bread, but bread that is bound to fall butter side up because both sides are buttered. On the one side, there is the romantic bad man and all the melodramatic hokum ever devised, including the widder woman preyed upon by the wily banker. And if this side does not please sophisticated Broadway as it once pleased a gaslit Bowery, there is Playwright Ginty's nimble kidding and drawling backwoods humor to save...
...railroad properties and Alleghany Corp., which normally controls them, is a useless intermediary holding company, Chesapeake Corp. (originally the top holding company until the Van Sweringens added Alleghany in order to float more securities). Last week, at last, came the first move to take the cheese out of this stale Van Sweringen sandwich. Chesapeake Corp.'s directors authorized using $2,000,000 of its $7,349,134 earned surplus to cover such claims or liabilities as may arise when the company is dissolved. Concurrently they declared what may be the last regular Chesapeake Corp. dividend-35? per share...
...Four Daughters is pure pastoral. Ann's romance with the composer Felix is getting along gayly when Mickey Borden (John Garfield) hitchhikes out from the city to orchestrate a piece of Felix's music. Ann has never met Mickey's type, dark, rude, bitter as stale tea. On the day she is meant to marry Felix she marries Mickey-a mistake, as cinemaddicts will spot immediately, for Felix is considerably more clean-cut. It takes a year's time and a melodramatic suicide to clear up the situation...
...play gone stale, down to his last $391.23, Philip Whitlock abandons his retreat in the Canadian woods, goes to visit the Marstons, owners of the wire factory in a one-industry town in Connecticut, and stays on in their guest house. The fateful Marstons are a gruesome miniature of the capitalist world as left-wing thinkers see it. After seeing a great deal of it, Philip decides this environment is too much for him. But on the day he intends to clear out for Oregon he gets involved in an eviction, lands in the hospital with a fractured skull...