Word: unevenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silken Shackles (Irene Rich). Behind this horrible title lurks one of the usually nauseous triangle dramas of uneven family life. Thanks to the performance of Miss Rich and the general intelligence of the story and direction, the picture may be endured, perhaps occasionally enjoyed. This wife wearied of her dentist husband and took up with a gentleman who let his hair grow long and played the violin. The couple are overtaken in Trieste and the wife concludes that her sane and comfortable spouse is, perhaps, better after...
...middle one to Rene Lacoste, the other two to Vincent Richards. Miss Wills bagged two sets from Mme.Rene Mathieu, 6-3, 6-4. Howard Kinsy took two sets out of three from Paul Feret, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The Richards Lacoste play was uneven, ragged-served none the less to reverse Lacoste's triumph over Richards at Manhattan, last February...
...such "old wives' tales" therefore are only enough "to make a good story." Signora Sarfatti's style is often uneven, diffuse, erratic; but much of her material is of the first importance and obtainable in English in no other form...
...turned away from the brilliant stage, and strode down a side street into blue shadows. I felt the rolling, uneven footing of brick. A narrow walk it was, and scarce wide enough for two; often I brushed against rough walls. Once when a lamp sent out a swelling yellow glow I saw an ancient house, primly white, with great green shutters bent forward a little, standing in silence as if listening to ghostly voices and the clump of buckled shoes, now so long silent...
...among these Southerners. It seemed in this play that he had glorified them just a trifle. Their humor is a bit too sharp, their characters a bit intensified. Yet the novelty, the philosophy and the intelligence of the piece makes it better than most. It is endowed with an uneven performance...