Word: baclanova
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...oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress Olga Baclanova, began to dwindle. He began to brood, long and darkly. Last June he gave a recital in his studio. Then he began giving away old books, keepsakes, treasured souvenirs...
Through this grotesque panorama weaves a story telling how a beautiful trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) came to be a freak who resembles a chicken. A midget (Harry Earle, who looks like a cartoon of Herbert Hoover) has a misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace...
...advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him an indictment of womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with his brother. Clive Brook does not kill himself after all because he finds that Mme. Baclanova's perhaps necessary death in the last scene was not caused...
...first appearance in an "all talking" but also is made significant by a distinct advance in his ability as an actor. This film showing the back stage actions of the bears and bulls of the stock market would be little more than worthless without his stellar work assisted by Baclanova...
...Baclanova's foreign accent adds a certain bizarre quality which is a distinct addition to production. Her acting is not of the best calibre and yet she leaves a distinct impression of talent...