Word: triteness
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Trapped in so painfully trite a triangle, Another Dawn'?, cast coolly do their theatrical best. Ian Hunter, in what is apparently an air-conditioned oasis, is properly stoic. A raging sirocco does not discourage Miss Francis from exhibiting her usual sweeping evening gowns and Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare...
...does a swell job confusing pure melo-drama with humor not so pure. At times "There Goes My Girl" is definitely amusing, but the stretches of dialogue between the sparse high spots stretch off into the dim, dim distance. The film is not recommended for exam wearied students. Most trite remark: "What are we, men or mice...
...Lost Horizon" we have a thought vividly presented, artistically developed, and--like all pithy ideas--dropped ingloriously at the completion of a circle in impressive, but essentially trite conclusion. The circle is the story in James Hilton's novel or, in this case, the scenario of Frank Capra's production. The conclusion is a toast to the truth of the author's though by his characters...
...trite enumeration of other physical assets would doubtless be boring, since all men know that all Houses are adequately equipped. In later articles in this series, the reader may assume that when such things as superior squash courts, libraries, ping pong tables, common rooms, and the like are mentioned, such matters are taken for granted at Dunster...
...assert that the ordinary U. S. citizen grows excited about politics only once every four years and thinks about Government only when his mail goes astray is a trite slur on the national intelligence. Last week vigilant patriots felt reluctantly impelled to believe that there might be some truth in it. Difficult to explain otherwise was the public indifference which greeted President Roosevelt's proposal of the most momentous change in U. S. Government and politics since Andrew Jackson perfected the spoils system. Possibly, however, citizens were simply baffled because the President had packaged his dynamite-a proposal...