Word: windedness
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Despite constant reference to the war and the occasional inside look at the machinery safeguarding the "Taxiing" of American planes to Britain, "International Lady" remains strictly in the old tradition of espionage pictures. Saboteurs and spies, old barns and Long Island villas, unbreakable codes and secret inks all play their...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering...
It starts off with a frivolous seance that backfires by conjuring up a man's beautiful, mischievous late wife, who floats spectrally through his household, splashing delicate poison on his second marriage. Since the daffy medium who contrived the lady's visit lacks the power to terminate it...
First it was "Panama Hattic," then "Lady in the Dark" and now it is "Cabin in the Sky", first it was Ethel Merman, the Gertrude Lawrence and now it is Ethel Waters. With these Big Three Boston will be able to look back upon one of its best seasons of...
As usual, he began historically and ended hysterically. The history was long-winded and occasionally either ambiguous or ignorant: in speaking of World War I, he referred to "the President Roosevelt of that period." The hysterics were incoherent - but in their very incoherence lay the subtlety of the speech. Every...