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...everyone knows who has ever bothered to make a few comparisons. No attempt is so beset with inveiglements to flat failure. The way is full of pitfalls, and flanked with ambushes--of ill temper, overstatement, and undue ambition to substitute mere "smartness" for humor. It is like baking a custard: too much heat in the oven fillips it to whey in a twinkling, and untutored carelessness withers all its delicious possibilities to stringy, unpalatable ruin. But blessed are they among a generation anhungered who know the true recipe and have acquired the knack of handling the heat...
Glenn Hunter paints an unforgettable portrait as the hero, even as he did on the stage. Viola Dana did not quite do credit to the Montague girl. There was one custard...
...Humming Bird. Gloria Swanson is emerging from the seven artistically lean years when she was wandering among the wastes of custard comedy and overdressed society. In Zaza, the evidences of her ability to act as well as to wear well were remarked by the critics. In The Humming Bird she has forsaken completely her troupe of trained sequins and adopted boy's clothes. Her part is that of an Apache leader in the Paris slums who leads her dedecorus dragoons to the battle front at the first call of war in 1914. There is, of course, the handsome American...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Showing the influence of custard pie movies on the stage. Furiously funny farce about convalescence by necessity...
...NERVOUS WRECK?The custard pie comedy of the current play bill. Funniest farce in five years...