Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antics too trite to be really funny seemed funny last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. A beggar walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations...
...book is written with the intention of exposing professionalism in college athletics and Mr. Hall does so by satirizing conditions at a typical state university. Through one of his characters he indicts American amateur athletics vigorously and upholds the English ideal "sport for sport's sake." The story is trite, similar to any cinema of college life, and typical of the kind of stuff that appears in the popular fiction magazines. Even the indictment of athletics is outworn in this day when a change for the better has taken place and the football overemphasis bugaboo has been pretty well dispelled...
...both of his leading characters that follows to the end of the play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the present he unfortunately fails to be convincing, or even amusing. Cocktails and smart talk might be thoroughly evil, but David is merely trite on the subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered in a long and dull exposition by officer Cuff and the final acceptance of the verdict whatever it might be is an anticlimax...
Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...
Less prententions even than "Waterloo Bridge", is Mr. Howard's "Half Goda". It is a trite and trivial discussion of modern marriage and divorce. A wife is psychoanalyzed, goes p-fff-t (as Mr. W. Winchell says) with her husband, and opens the way for a lot of deserved, but absolutely unoriginal lambasting of the so-called Science of Psychology. Of course, in the end, they all go old-fashioned, and rejoin for the sake of the kiddies. It is perhaps a bit shameful of a reviewer to criticize a play which was written for one purpose--to stay...