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...Golden Princess is neither the first nor the most important of Bret Harte's tales to be done into celluloid. It manages to preserve all the vices, none of the virtues, of the script. Some will enjoy it because it furnishes Betty Bronson with an opportunity to see how girlish she can make a pair of ordinary corduroy breeches; others will be irate because they misread "Bret" for "Bill...
...direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose ends and faulty emphases and win through to the central piece of work that recommends the book. The characterization of gangling young Bronson Kenworthy, precocious, perverse, love-starved divorce-victim, is striking. He is brought up by a devoted chauffeur. He glowers at the world through thick glasses. He kicks, punches, smokes black cigars at 14, reviles his mother's name. His father and Aunt Emily slowly humanize him. He dies...
...Long Ago. Old New York and the first automobile cluster quaintly about a gentle love story of the little seamstress and the town dandy. Fine old costumes and deft direction by Sidney Olcott. Betty Bronson plays the little lady with the thimble. Her exceedingly agreeable activities prove that she was no flash in the Peter...
...ANATOLE FRANCE HIMSELF-Jean Jacques Bronson (translated by John Pollock)-Lippincott...
...Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability that all fears that Peter Pan would be her only claim to fame are gratefully laid aside, and another actress of the first rank is admitted to the small company of the actual artists. Wildfire. Racehorse pictures are inevitable. Racehorse pictures...