Word: vapidness
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...fever and commissioned hundreds of private murals of their own. In the supplement, TIME presents a cross-section of the murals, public & private, now being erected in this country. Their only common denominator is the desire to say something definite about the U. S., to get away from vapid allegory and Artist Gilbert White's ladies in cheesecloth...
...Marie Galante" is an exciting picture a well-constructed story swiftly and surely moving to a satisfying climax. Ketti Gallian, a gift from France, does quite well with a rather vapid leading role in which she is allowed to do little more than look attractive and sing a Lucienne Boyet type of song in a rather even, delicate voice. Miss Gallian is very handsome to see and has a highly attractive sort of Gallic charm; she should do well given a worthy vehicle for her talents...
...first story, "Horsie," in which she creates a feeling of pathos in the reader by firmly withholding it in herself, to the derisive portrait of an actress called "Glory in the Daytime," her objective skill never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld...
...connection with the musicomedy, called Dancing Lady. Gloomy, irascible, gnawed by dark creative fervors, the dance director presently hears that his backer has withdrawn his support because the young socialite wants his inamorata to be, not an actress, but his companion on a trip to Cuba. As vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening night to be completely gala...
...Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere...