Word: tinsel
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...Life Wonderful!" cry they. Neil Hamilton and Carol Dempster (cf. America) have the parts. So telling are their portraits that the director must be further commended. As postscript to this tribute must be added the opinion that the film will not be popular. So taken are the masses with tinsel imitations that simple sincerity must necessarily be tasteless...
...Glory by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Hard on their heels will come Havoc, fresh from a London success, and The Conquering Hero, by Allan Monkhouse, an Englishman, under the beneficent auspices of the Theatre Guild. At least two others are now in preparation. The swagger and tinsel of war in the theatre of eight years ago has been discarded. The majority of these new productions are bitter, ironic dissections of sorrow. Probably none of them will possess the mordant satiric force of Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet their mission is clear. The young men who have...
...imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
TARNISH-Middle class morality, with its eyes made to smart by the tinsel of Broadway...
...Lady of Quality reminds one, appropriately enough, of a Christmas tree dressed in the bravery of gold and tinsel (England in the 17th Century). With a number of substantial presents pendent from its boughs, preliminary inspection will bring complete approval. As the play proceeds and the visitor begins to poke around behind the gaily decorated boughs he finds to his dismay that the picture tree has no roots of plot. It teeters badly and threatens to collapse at the first breath of a yawn. When the heroine is growing up as a tomboy in the country there is entertainment. When...