Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapel and choir will be situated at the east end of the building, and will be separated from the nave by a wooden screen. Daily services will be held in this smaller section. On Sundays the services will be conducted from the nave, while the choir will be behind the screen. The narthex, or memorial room, will be separated by two doors from the body of the chapel...
...given at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Paine Hall of the Music Building. The singers are made up of two French boy scout troops who comprise the church choir of the cardinal of Paris. They have toured the United States and Canada as "The Little Singers of the Wooden Cross," and have the patronage of the French Government...
...adventures that were before us as highwaymen of the sea, and were using, I am sorry to say, as much of the language that such men would have used as we knew, which was not much, and, horrible to relate, were armed and equipped, not only with wooden pistols and bowie knives, but with a cigar apiece, and I am afraid that on the table before us stood a bottle of ginger-pop, which was as far as we dared to go in the direction of inebriation. We were not accustomed to estimate the permeating power of cigar smoke, whereby...
...example of appalling incompetence. Its story is 1915 drama couched in the seedy terms of 1890 farce. Lily Damita, the star, is unbecomingly attired, subjected to poor lighting and a badly written rôle. O. P. Heggie, an actor of good standing, chants his horrid lines with fearful, wooden verve. The direction, by Victor Schertzinger, is atrocious. The dialog is unspeakably bad. The photography, credited to J. Roy Hunt, is an unhappy reflection on himself and his subject. And the whole is a pitiful commentary on the attempts of the glorified "radio interests" to create cinema...
...Church Mouse. Some doubt exists as to whether all Hungarian plays not written by Ferenc Molnar are originally dull, or if their dullness is due to the unerringly wooden touch of Frederick & Fanny Hatton who adapt most of them to the U. S. stage. Last month Laszlo Fodor's I Love an Actress was presented in Manhattan. Like an interesting photographic landscape, it had form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich...