Word: tinsel
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...Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (whom the show booms for President) makes a speech to an orphan asylum...
From the clown whose heart was breaking beneath his greasepaint, even though he capered and grimaced ever so gayly, from the sad fate of the little sawdust equestrienne, from the scores of tragedies of tarnished tinsel, the playwrights of today 'have traveled rather swiftly over a long road. They have left behind the doubtful humors of bathos, which are caught by only a minority of their listeners and even then in contradiction of the author's intention. From the mists of experiment may appear the author who can view life again as a stage, with perhaps some of the subtlety...
...African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige of her Nilotic lure and intellectuality...
...fair lady, says the heroine. And the hero shows her just how little faint hearted the son of a French general can be. The show is not going to sell on the merits of its love story, but on the strength of its supply of gaud and tinsel. It is one more example of American efficiency. The French and the Spanish have failed miserably and the Spanish have failed miserably to exhaust the possibilities of Morroco. It remained for the American producers of Lady Fair to squeeze the lemon day. North Africa has been combed from West, to East...
...store from the children and is in turn captured by a onetime countergirl whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from old Daniel's pennyscrimping examinations of the store's daily refuse, in the odd socks, ravelings, scraps and broken tinsel of which he finally recognizes his children). Its rapid motion is even, sure. Yet in all the 447 pages, times are penetrated as seldom as people; the pictures of Chicago's Board of Trade, her restaurants, clubs, night joints, aristocratic lakefront and booming South Side are superficial, gaudy pictures...