Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That section of the population who would support plays of a higher calibre either go to New York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...
Stolen Heaven (Paramount). Nancy Carroll wears pretty clothes and struggles with stupid dialog, with weak direction by George Abbott, and with a story by Dana Burnet that might have been impressive, if thoroughly and patiently dealt with, but that turns out badly. A young man (Phillips Holmes) who has held up a radio factory meets a discouraged girl in a city street late at night. She hides him in her room and, liking each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit...
...often been called the most mature undergraduate editorial page in the country is indeed sad, sad stuff. A CRIMSON editor, up for an original idea or comment, decided to be nonchalant. Instead of reaching for a Murad, he reached for the dictionary and the result is one of those stupid editorials that try to be different and end in being ridiculous...
...pantomime. Chance guests would be hauled into his projection room to see rushes of the film. They were asked to describe what they had seen. If they missed a point that was intended to be clear Chaplin-feeling that his story must be understood by everyone, even the stupid or the distracted-would have the scene refilmed. In rest intervals he would play "Violetera" on his harmonium and sing an imitation of Spanish words to it in the manner of Raquel Meller. One afternoon he nearly lost his mustache. He has had the same one for 15 years. A Manhattan...
...spoke up, as more active financiers cannot very well do. Said he: "This depression is the stupidest and most gratuitous in history!" All the existing essential circumstances "except monetary wisdom," he declared, favor a return to prosperity and well being. Gold is the thing about which 1930 was stupid, about which 1931 must be wise. "The explanation of our anomalous situation," declared Lord d'Abernon, "is that the machinery for handling and distributing the product of labor has proved inadequate. The means of payment provided by currency and credit have fallen so short of the amount required by increased...