Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather tedious evening of sitting and waiting--waiting for the end--one gets the impression that the author of the play has a message and that in order to convey it to the world, he has gone out and made a careful compilation of all platitudes about the inherent badness of human nature and the essentially raw deal which life hands out to us. In fact he may even have contributed a few original platitudes. At all events there is a didactic spuriousness about it all which almost defies description and wouldn't in any case be worthy of description...
...lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...
...Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation is being kept by Johnnie and Nellie. Three times she shoots him ("roota-toot-toot") because she feels "he done her wrong." The ballad can be sung in about 20 minutes. It would be less tedious if Mr. Kirkland's play took no longer to unfold. Frankie is Anne Forrest; Johnnie is Frank McGlynn...
...English foxtrots, Italian opera. He has one of those brilliantly cultivated concert tenors which are far more effective than operatic voices for the microphone. Little Dorothy Jordan plays opposite him. Cutting would have done this picture good, as many of the sequences, retained for their sentimental import, are merely tedious, and the whole thing is too long. Good shots: what the girl from the convent says when Novarro asks her if she would like to come home with him; harmonic parallelogram of nuns singing mass; the young singer, his old teacher, and their fat landlady singing a trio...
...makes it ridiculous or by the presence of a character who does not belong in it. As a taxidriver, a ship's steward, and finally a castaway on a desert island, Oakie through the rambling plot has nothing to satirize; the only way that he can satirize the tedious job of being funny all the time is by being inadvertently dull for long stretches. People who find the picture outmoded in its song and chorus numbers may be reminded that Let's Go Native was made some time ago, before Oakie had officially become a star; for some...