Word: dialogic
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...prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning has told the story in spasms of "Oh, yeah?" dialog, within the three walls of various cheap stage sets. The fighter wins his battles so long as he listens to his manager but fails at last because his chorus-girl wife, who is interested in him only for the money he can give her, makes him break with his manager...
...goes to work at the filling station every day and when he comes home he hides his overalls, tells lies about where he has been. In the end he beats out the man who runs the filling station across the street. His partner marries his daughter. Quietly literate dialog by Booth Tarkington helps the effect, but it is always Arliss who gives the little picture distinction. He finds many things to do that make moments and the character come alive: mummery with the medicine, which he carefully measures out. and then throws through the window; his manner with his young...
...casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale-broken scenes in which Miss Shearer dances in the arms of successive admirers, always to the accompaniment of a shrill, annoying laughter that is the keynote of the picture. The dialog is wretched. Most tiresome shot: Robert Montgomery's half-filled cocktail glass...
...contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade of meaning, and the scene where Wheeler and Woolsey come through an airplane bombing with most of their clothes torn off, were not good even when they were...
Divorced. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears...