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...jazzites, like Perizzites and Hittites, are badly out of date. One grows positively gloomy when the scene opens in Miami with speedboats upon the waters and the scenery littered up with society people in stenographers' clothing. Then a flying boat crashes and things begin to improve. Soon the heroine (Bebe Daniels) on the trail of a thrill stumbles into a den of crooks. The audience has caught the idea by this time and for the rest of the picture thrills comfortably in spite of itself...
...comparatively essential factor to social success. The impecunious novelist and his impecunious spouse find their marital journeyings about the aristocratic globe are bringing them perilously near shipwreck. A little money arriving at the critical moment, however, saves the situation, and they don't get divorced after all. Bebe Daniels makes the wife as attractive as her part permits, and Nita Naldi is a convincing seductress. The picture differs from Edith Wharton's novel only in plot, spirit and quality. The best recent picture-possibly the best in history-continues to be The Covered Wagon, epic of the plains...
...furnishes the leading film at the Modern and Beacon Theatres this week. A well-balanced cast includes Matt Moore, George Parsons and Gladys Leslie, who aid in the characterization of a piece dependent on human nature and satirical effect for its situations. On the same bill is Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes", wherein she plays the role of an unconventional young heiress whose chief delight is calling telephone numbers at random and flirting with unknown male voices at the other end of the wire. This photoplay has been announced for a forthcoming production on the stage...