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...excelled himself. Hubby's innocent little lies, wifey's tiny peccadillos grow into impressive embarrassments. The originality displayed in screening this commonplace business assures a pleasant surprise for cynics who have resigned themselves to the belief that the only formula for film fun is custard pie and an abused Ford...
...likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass came loose like a slab of stale custard...
...Trouble with Wives. Ford Sterling, if memory serves, was once a comedian in custard. He has graduated to the more aristocratic atmosphere of light comedy and thrives on the change. His part is that of the well-meaning friend who gets dragged into one of those mother-in-law-and-suspicious-wife disturbances. There is also Florence Vidor and Tom Moore. All very amusing...
...violently did the vulgar clasp him to its unclean bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some...