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...laggards are the press agents of Clara Bow. For better or worse they have affixed to her the appositive name, "The It Girl," and the connotation to that title means to collegians, railway clerks, farm boys that Clara Bow is the personification of sex appeal. But Miss Bow also has histrionic ability. Some measure of praise is due her in this piece, in which she is the mercenary mink who works as a professional partner in a dancehall. Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors...
...tells the crowded courtroom (which includes her mother) that she is a lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...
Janet Gaynor, newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
...prospects of a season without defeat, beat St. Bonaventure, 27-0. Many strong teams bullied little opponents into quick submission; Cornell scattered Clarkson Tech.; West Point drilled Boston University, Colgate smeared St. Lawrence, Dartmouth scuttled Norwich, Amherst gobbled Middlebury, Notre Dame routed Loyola, Pennsylvania clawed Ursinus, California smashed Santa Clara U., Penn State walked through Lebanon Valley...
...first scene is in the Manhattan home of the Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into...