Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daytime Wives. Duty is usually obvious and often dull. This celluloid sermon on the whole duty of wives has absorbed those characteristics in more than moderate proportions...
Three Wise Fools. This picture fractures celluloid tradition shamefully. It has three heroes, every one 60 years old. The heroine (Eleanor Burdman) kisses them consistently on the forehead instead of on the lips. Though the picture is played in a so-called "society" atmosphere, not a flapper or a bar of jazz is introduced. Could anything be more unorthodox? The strain was too great for the nice, old-fashioned director. At the last moment he rushed in a bandolined beauty (male) for the heroine to marry...
Such a picture is this latest edition in celluloid from the pen of Booth Tarkington. Ben Alexander and Joe Butterworth carry the title roles. Newcomers, they promptly take their place among the leaders of this children's Crusade in California. For those who favor cinema children the picture will afford consistent entertainment...
Main Street. The Warner Brothers have made a fatal step. They have finally capitulated to the harsh outcries of the movie critics and produced a book as it was printed. They have introduced no extra lovers for their celluloid Carol; they have sedulously omitted all train wrecks and one-piece bathing suits. They have admitted that Sinclair Lewis knew more about their business than they...
Trailing African Wild Animals. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson are the latest tripod nimrods to return to Broadway with the pelts and carcasses (in celluloid) of giraffes and jungle tigers. In the classic English of a recent advertisement they bring the " mighty monarchs of the murky morass, pinioned and pictured...