Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor easy to get on or near the campus...
...Campus Flirt (Bebe Daniels). Herein a snobbish young lady is levelled down to democratic normalcy by collegiate pranks known only to cinema directors. After the reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...
Bebe Daniels plays the title role, but the title scarcely fits the role. The popular notion of a Campus Flirt, born of the novels of Percy Marks, and Scott Fitzgerald's maunderings upon the younger generation and jelly rolls, demands that a Flirt flirt. By the same token, if Flirt means flirt, Charlie Paddock means run. And except for one long distance shot of "the fastest human" showing his heels to a bunch of girl hurdlers, Paddock did even less running than Bebe did flirting...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...
...prominent liner in the service, etc., "One feels one's age these days." And salt tears streak down the rusted sides. For out in the great open spaces where men use Mennen's and the young fry get their culture on Mont-martre, sweaters are crossing the old campus grasses with the essence of moth balls, prominent and newly shined fraternity pins-resplendent. The Third Class Tourists are home...