Word: tediousness
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...debt, the mental incompetence of voters, the uselessness of the Vice-Presidency,* which made Of Thee I Sing so amusing, are all reworked for Let 'em Eat Cake. They fall quite flat. So do George Gershwin's antiphonal choral numbers which have grown longer and more tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair for writing silly repetitive lyrics no longer seems a sprightly burlesque of all lyric-writing. His lyrics often appear to be simply slovenly, lazy work. But Victor Moore is even funnier than...
...mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract us from the whole; we cannot at one time court irrelevance and desire a conclusion. The direct man is not concerned with looking through the keyhole, but with opening the door. POLLUX...
...Soaring Society of America at Elmira, N. Y. last July when there was wind enough for soaring. The meet was rated a success because it marked the establishment of a permanent meteorologi- cal station at Elmira and because a large number of novices earned primary soaring certificates. But the tedious days of inactivity, punctuated by windy speech-making on the part of local boosters, made crack glider pilots wonder why Elmira should be the only soaring site in the East. One who wondered was Richard Chichester du Pont. Last week he did something about it. Richard du Pont, 24, blond...
...tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor, the rest of the picture is fairly entertaining because Frank Morgan and Alice Brady give such good performances...
Last week a strange squadron of cavalry clattered into El Paso, Tex. Its 180 horses and 200 men rode in trucks and trailers. They had just completed a tedious 630-mi. trip across the scorching Big Bend Desert to Terlingua and were returning to be reviewed by Major General Frank R. McCoy. The officers in charge felt they had proved the value of motorized cavalry travel to save the energy of men & mounts until the scene of battle is reached, just as racehorses are vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would...