Word: dempster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grinnell, Iowa, last week a Mrs. A. H. Dempster stood on a platform, opened her mouth, called "Yoo-hoo!" The sound carried all over town, reverberated in barns; she was judged winner of a husband calling contest...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
That Royle Girl. Carol Dempster is just about on the verge of becoming a movie actress of consider, able consequence. It was D. W Griffith who discovered her, and the same D. W, Griffith directs her in this film. Perhaps it is not one of Mr. Griffith's best. He is directing for Famous Players and apparently has to get out so many pictures a year. It is, however, one of Miss Dempster's best and that is of immense importance. She plays a newsgirl who grows up to be a model and subsequently an actress. Also included...
Here we are well into the second paragraph and we haven't said a serious word about Miss Dempster yet. She escaped from a Mary Pickford tendency to fight in the streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls...
...spite of all the better things we have said about "That Royle Girl," it really isn't bad entertainment. Mr. Griffith is doing stunts for his audience, and if the story is jerky, and the action too rapid at times, there is still the beautiful and clever Miss Dempster, to make up for other failings. As we have intimated above, she would be a great actress if she stopped trying to be cute...