Word: tedium
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...real force are nor Ibsen's crudities, but the mistakes made by Eva LeGallienne in her several capacities of director, producer, translator and actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop performance, a choice which only serves to increase the tedium of the whole proceeding. By casting Mary Alice Moore, who was obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still...
...aboard who still had his heart in the war. But after 2½ years in the Navy, Roberts' heart was sore as a boil. Instead of getting on a can or a carrier or a battlewagon, he had been left on the Reluctant, whose regular run was "from Tedium to Apathy and back." Roberts' defense against frustration and boredom was to work as hard and think as little as possible...
...Like It Here has one real asset: Refugee Actor Karlweis (Rosalinda, Jacobowsky and the Colonel). His engaging personality and amusing ways reduce what might have been torture to no worse than tedium...
...impatient man has no business in a photographic darkroom, but if one should find himself there, Eastman Kodak is ready to ease his dank tedium. Ready last week were two new fast-action print papers: Resisto N for contact prints, Resisto Rapid for enlargements...
...fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...