Word: straightforwardness
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...Family" is a comedy, a straightforward he-man affair, with no subtlety, no Arlenesque sophistication. The players all say what they mean, and they inflect their voices in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
Speaking in straightforward fashion, M. de Jouvenel described the bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) as a police necessity, characterized the savage Druse tribesmen as "inveterate trouble makers." Even as he spoke French machine guns were crackling in Syria. More than 100 Druses were slain during "mopping up" operations by French troops last week...
...Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
PORGY-DuBose Heyward-Doran ($2.00). Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy...
...same. There is little or nothing to distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married, the father trying to govern his family without assistance...