Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Implicit in the writing, acting and direction of Make Way for a Lady, a conviction that the picture is completely charming helps to obliterate any trace of charm which it might otherwise have possessed. Most tedious shot: Actress Shirley's simper...
...literary figures. Filling the first and best part of his book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict, but in a subtle resentment at intellectual slights, does Swinnerton reveal the hazards of his literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world...
Daughters of Atreus (by Robert Turney; Delos Chappell, producer) is a high-minded, somewhat arty, occasionally tedious and pictorially beautiful synthesis of several Greek legends of family murder, with each of its three acts corresponding to a whole play as handled by Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced play of Author Turney who. now nearing 40, is reported to have nursed its idea ever since he left Columbia University. In the part of Clytemnestra it presents, in her U. S. debut, a German actress of considerable reputation named Eleonora Mendelssohn...
...Evanston gathering, whose deliberations took place in the diocesan Pro-Cathedral of St. Luke, was impressive, devout, tedious. Chief subjects considered by their excellencies of Canada, the U. S. and the West Indies were Peace and Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems...
...sole problem herein was how to substitute overalls for the soldiers' uniforms McLaglen has worn in his recent pictures. Adapted from a Liberty story, directed by John G. Blystone, The Magnificent Brute effects McLaglen's demobilization with a minimum of distinction, a fair share of entertainment. Most tedious noise: McLaglen's guffaw...