Word: absurdity
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...York World (in an editorial)-"Mr. Belasco has tried hard to make himself rich. He has made himself absurd and contemptible...
...Lighthouse by the Sea. Just as Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...
...practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history as women of quality. But for a great lady to pretend to be a courtesan is at once difficult and absurd. The Baroness Von Popper found...
...nothing to do with Christmas. The first in order is John Finley's "College for Knowledge." Here, after his brief excursion into the realms of sentiment. Mr. Finley returns to his former suavely acid insinuations, and quite convinces us that the entire Workshop affair is after all, merely another absurd and inconsequential eddy in the comic stream that college is. Hugh Whitney's "Ballad", next in order, is exquisitely done and comment seems superfluous Whitney Cromwell unleashes the ironic whiplash of his tongue in "The Salesman", and Charles Allen Smart, in the last of the four distinctly good things...
...this is, of course, in re the younger generation. The young ladies are plentifully petted and cocktailed. Most of it is dull and arrantly absurd. Emma Dunn, as the mother, reinforces it with the single striking performance...