Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture of a peasant marriage includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry...
...with the Show (Warner). The faint, yellowish color which tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...
...which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such...
...verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young irresponsibility for the purpose of illustrating it and which are not kept from being tedious by their waggish, unjustified affectation of daring. Best shot-Joyce Compton as a tattletale...
...also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...