Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cohens and Kellys in Paris. If there is anything inherently comic about Irish individuals and Hebrew individuals when placed in boisterous juxtaposition, this film, like its predecessor, The Cohens and Kellys, is no doubt hilarious. The previous picture not only was, in the opinion of many, a riot; it also caused violent scenes to take place in some of the theatres where it was shown. People threw tomatoes at the screen and at each other. The sequel is less likely to precipitate...
Item: One faithful, if comic, Chinese servant...
...know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality, he is one of the persons named above. But which one? Is there any way to find out without waiting for the last chapter? There is. The squealer...
...book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry Beryl. Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery...
Buck Privates. Lya de Putti, who, with Emil Jannings, was seen in Variety, whirling in dizzy arcs on the trapezes of love and sorrow, now plays a faintly comic role in a rather foolish U. S. soldier-boy cinema. A demure, unprepossessing pacifist, wearing a huge head of false hair, she falls in love with a boisterous buck private named John Smith. Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque. At the last, everybody begins to run around, faster and faster, taking spills and turning somersaults. Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were...