Word: conveyances
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...rather tedious evening of sitting and waiting--waiting for the end--one gets the impression that the author of the play has a message and that in order to convey it to the world, he has gone out and made a careful compilation of all platitudes about the inherent badness of human nature and the essentially raw deal which life hands out to us. In fact he may even have contributed a few original platitudes. At all events there is a didactic spuriousness about it all which almost defies description and wouldn't in any case be worthy of description...
That such a dramatic idea is difficult to convey to an audience is at once apparent. Playwright Sidney R. Buchman is never able to make his theme articulate. But Actor Paul Muni (Wisenfreund)-"The Man of 1,000 Faces"-pumps life into the character of sturdy brother Saul...
...hotel. Such a situation has comparatively fresh dramatic potentialities, but the story is archaic and the fact that all dealings with the unseen men characters have to be carried on offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant, the action must be signified by speeches to her fellow-guests in the waiting room of the hostelry...
...intolerable. A five minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that...
...picture which shows her holding the basketed bottle in a setting which offers the observer no suggestion of a ship or any connection with the object for which the bottle was used. Basketing is commonly used on liquor bottles. The picture and especially your caption are manifesty intended to convey the impression that Mrs. Hoover is getting a thrill out of holding a bottle of liquor in her hand. Which puts her in a doubly embarrassing light, being the woman she is and occupying, as your own caption indicates, the position of -'first lady" in a land where prohibition...