Word: weirding
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...more than annoying but these are more than made up for by the antics of Aunt Hotty and her secretary; the busy Bertie. Mr. Marshall cannot be blamed for an uncompromising role but he most certainly cannot escape the censure that his portrayal is uninspired throughout. His stride is weird, he turns from the camera when the audience wants from the camera when the audience wants to see him and his countenance is insufferably blank. It is difficult, however, to say whether he, or the author, is responsible...
...Norman Lloyd, professional though he may be, that if his conception of mental anguish is to twist his body into fantastic shapes and to stand with his hands raised to the heavens and his back to the audience--if that is his conception, it is certainly a weird one. Mr. Byer's sense of the melodramatic nearly ran away with him and Miss Margaret Lang gave a surprisingly sour-faced and matter-of-fact portrayal of Death. Mr. James Tower, in the part of Lewis the Loving, needs a gentle reminder that love is neither complacent, simpering nor awkward...
...lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting the same family twice to demonstrate the well-proven thesis that the library, not the theatre, is the proper setting for biographical research...
...Death-as it must to all men. red, white, black, brown or yellow-came to Two Guns White Calf. Press releases told of the death of the "Nickel" Indian, told how medicine men had offered up prayers to the Sun God. Natos, told how his people had chanted the weird "Wolf Song" to carry him to the Happy Hunting Ground. Meantime at Browning. Mont.. Father M. J. Haligan chanted a high requiem mass over Two Guns' body which was then laid in a Roman Catholic grave...
...amusements are either too far different, too expensive, or too wicked, the meeting-house bell is heard by all. Mrs. Peterkin has depicted the peculiar religious zeal of the rural negro with humor and understanding. Her description of the frocked deacons, the collection plate en parade, "testifying," and the weird frenzy of the confessional "stomp" seem incredible to one who has not witnessed these things first hand. A more lofty spiritual tone pervades the sonorous "lining out" of hymns to those who cannot read, but all these things have more than a semblance of the barbaric creeds which they...