Word: arliss
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...whopping English pageantry. In 113 minutes 60 years flicker past. The cast boasts 72 names, innumerable extras, is so huge that the part of Disraeli is taken not by one actor, but by both Derrick Demarney, who looks rather younger, and Hugh Miller, who looks rather older than George Arliss. Splendor nourishes itself on magnificence until, with all England jubilant, the picture bursts into a hopeful climax in technicolor...
...serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin, but their societies were not officially represented in Milwaukee...
...favorite stars were Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, William Powell, Wallace Beery, George Arliss and Myrna Loy, in that order. Women's favorites were Shirley Temple, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Greta Garbo. More surprising was the survey's answer to the question about the double feature, long a thorn in the side of the industry which thinks the public likes...
...little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later project with alarm but, of course, the Go-Getter goes & gets. Amiable, rapid and pleasant to watch, The Go-Getter's sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor Winninger, with Victor Moore, George Arliss and Wallace Beery, as another contender for the position of the late Will Rogers in the affection of U. S. cinemaddicts. Typical shot: Cappy delivering his favorite oath, "By the holy pink-toed prophet," when he learns that, despite his instructions to the contrary, Bill and Margaret have eloped...
...unhappy contrast is "The Iron Duke", of which the only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone...