Word: staticity
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Lollipop. Since the lollipop is a singularly static confection and insignificantly priced, its selection for titular symbolism in this musical comedy is open to criticism. With the exception of Runnin' Wild the production is the most uncompromisingly active show now exhibiting. It contains as aggressive a display of irrepressible dancing as does Dervish local No. 324 of Delhi...
...Hutchinson. Mr. Fox was unhappily hanicapped. The novel is largely theoretical. It conducts a polemic on the respective values for women of children or a career. Mr. Hutchinson loves children. He does it with literary conviction. His characters' reactions are largely psychological and therefore too often static on the screen...
London political circles have it that a general election will take place either during December or early in the New Year. This prognostication is made on the assumption that the Ruhr-Reparations situation, with its adverse reflex on British industry, will remain static or grow worse. In view of M. Poincare's recalcitrant attitude to the reparations tangle, this forecast of events is justified; no Government can endure a prolongation of the present intolerable situation, in view of the fact that unemployment is an intrinsic part...
...even rags for costumes, a popular song for a plot, and a phonograph for music would be overlooked in view of the dancing and the vast enthusiasm of the players. Never before has so much energy been concentrated on a single stage. A congress of oriental dervishes would seem static in comparison. In addition, the stars, Miller and Lyles, are boisterously competent comedians. The production is on a par with that sire of colored shows, Shuffle Along...
...Marquis Curzon in effigy was taken for an airing by the irate communists of Moscow; subsequently he was hanged. Bolshevik remarks were hurled not only at the static Curzon but also at the dynamic one in the London Foreign Office. Even Tehicherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, aristocrat though he is, reviled his noble colleague in no complimentary terms...