Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF?A full bodied portrait of the man who is an addict to self-exploitation, whose enthusiasm for himself remains undampened by a sparkling shower-bath of satire...
...finger of suspicion pointing at the scenario-writer. He had an oportunity to adapt what might have proved the best celluloid comedy of the year, but, unfortunately, he judged his own ability superior to that of the original author (Harry Leon Wilson). Out of the wreckage the cinema addict can salvage considerable amusement. If he happens to have read the story he will experience a great wave of pity for the vacant spaces inside the adapter's cranium where lie scattered the wrecks of situations sacrificed...
...cardinal leader of effective entertainment. Accordingly his wife and the Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League might have spared his memory the fitful fever of an opiate post mortem. Each Human Wreckage witness will take back to the salesdesk, the farm or the schoolroom a graven imprint of Reid the addict-not the actor...
...lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some...
...Luehrmann, contains all the necessary ingredients for the proper detective-thriller salad. There are enough murders (three) to give body, with tasty additions of diamond mines, dark-skinned strangers, secret service men, and lovely intrigues. The required dash of the bizzarre is obtained through the introduction of a coke-addict and a squirrel cap. Of course, the volume would seem more pleasing if the old theme of the opera singer and the wily conductor were not made so prominent, but the absence of the traditional sleuth with his magnifying glass is enough of a relief to make one forget this...