Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this the conversation quite naturally drifted to Mussolini. "The superman on the football field and the superman on the throne are two quite different things," she said. "In Europe last year it seemed that every body was insistent upon asserting his claim to the Napoleonic toga. But oddly enough the French seem to have changed their attitude toward Americans since they have acquired some money they have stopped sneering at you in the streets and confine their feelings to the family circle. And then there is always that American attitude that a young girl on the steamer rather pungently...
...their dull lives seem deeply significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded...
Richard Dix in "Lovin' the Ladies" provides the other feature picture and does an adequate job: masquerading as a gentleman instead of the good electrician he really is. Dix is strongly reminiscent of the chauffeur in Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman." The story drags in the latter reels...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
METEOR-Alfred Lunt as a tortured superman...