Word: impactions
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Ward Morehouse, a Broadway reporter for the New York Sun, once wrote a play called Gentlemen of the Press. Like many another play concocted by a writer whose chief writing is outside the theatre, this one has discursive charm, not much dramatic impact...
...produced in Greenland is even comparable. Ranking with all comers he certainly is one of the foremost of artists who have drawn in the North. On more specific grounds I would cite for their special excellence his perspective, his action, his strong sense of both the pictorial and dramatic impact, and above all, the values in his comprehensive epic of Eskimo life...
...side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
Much of the play is brash and bitter. Much of it is moving-notably the scene wherein Mary tries to explain to her little daughter (Charita Bauer) how it is that Mother and Daddy can fall out of love. All of the play has sharp theatrical impact. A vast improvement on the form shown last year in her melodrama Abide With Me, Clare Boothe's The Women was received by first audiences with grateful mirth. Clever of line and deft of pace, The Women is packed with cracks which will doubtless be batted back & forth across Manhattan dinner tables...
...Seven Sinners" is a murder mystery which is kept in active motion by the impact of three disastrous train wrecks. The lottery that selects the villain has returned once more to the detective. This selection might very well be guessed by anyone with his wits about him, for besides the American hero-slueth Edmund Lowe, there is a malignant-looking French detective, who could scarcely be put to any honest use. Movie blood-hounds hunt in mixed pairs, and the mediocre Mr. Lowe has by his side Miss Constance Cummings, who in spite of her early promise seems to have...