Word: boredome
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Selby Clive (Mr. Conroy), a Canadian mining magnate, has a wife (chirrupy Fay Bainter). whose life has been made so pleasant for her by an adoring husband that boredom has driven her to the brink of indiscretion with a young sop named O' Ryan (Derek Fairman). By chance they learn that Clive changed his name from Selby 20 years before in Canada. By chance they also learn that a man named Selby, 20 years before in Canada, ingeniously did away with his philandering mate and her lover in a series of accidents arising out of circumstances which...
...engage in endless, silly, self-conscious horseplay. Jack plays Jill is Queen Mary, or Jill plays Jack is trying to sell her a set of dirty picture cards outside the Invalides. Simultaneously there has developed a large U. S. audience whose reaction to this sort of thing is angry boredom. If you happen to be a member of this audience, you had better strike They Don't Mean Any Harm off your theatre list...
...equal propagandist is the conversational scarist, who peddles witticisms of drafts, who describes a feeling of boredom with academic life, and who pictures the great future of adventure and real service that comes with enlistment in an army in the Orient...
...through the door when policemen find him. Like Smart Money and Blonde Crazy, Taxi is a sordid but amusing observation on minor metropolitan endeavors. Good shot: Cagney riding home from Coney Island on a subway and listening, with his hat over his eyes and an expression of dangerous boredom, to the fuzzy comments of his girl's girl friend...
...Bohemian fairytale, Schwanda, a bagpipe player, was a perfect antidote for boredom. He melted Queen Ice-Heart who would have married him if his wife Dorota had not appeared with her carpet bag, demanding explanations. He put new life into the Devil who, before Schwanda visited him, was reduced to playing solitaire and reading Hell's tabloids...