Word: stagey
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...method is haphazard and strangely rhythmic, and the result is very fair theatre without being at all stagey. Bound between covers, it runs thin in the reading; but it is so evidently made for seeing and not for reading that this criticism cannot touch the author's craft...
...plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife in trousers ably supports laconic, "stagey" Mr. Hodge...
...bald and veracious a manner, the Circle loses by parading in a false and scaffolded plot a problem which has its roots in bigotry. The first act of the latter suffers immeasurably in consequence. From start to finish of the act there is talky-talk of the most stagey, witless sort, written to unfold the background of the play...
...they never saw Maude Adams at all. Other people matter, of course, but not as much as the youngish ones. They all loved Miss Miller. They never noticed that her voice was a shade shallow and twangy, or that Wendy was a mite too old, or Hook a spot stagey. Being modern children, they might have been disappointed had the company been more impromptu and not quite so technically competent...
...make a universal appeal, but one who knows it fairly well can vouch for the fact that it improves on better acquaintance. Musically, it was given an altogether excellent performance, to us it seemed that the reader's part was much overdone, and the whole thing a bit "stagey...