Word: dialogic
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...colleges where all the girls are good-looking, talk musical comedy English, make love instead of study, and wear clothes that must have cost their parents a pretty penny, Clara Bow falls in love with a professor. Warner Fabian wrote the plot and John V. A. Weaver the drawling dialog of a story that has no connection with the verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young irresponsibility for the purpose of illustrating...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...Kerrigan. The others are so conscious of the whimsy with which they are dealing that it vanishes in their eager hands. This is particularly true of Mary Ellis and in a lesser degree of Basil Sydney. However, not even heavy performances can completely weigh down ebullient dialog. There are worse places in life than Pooh Corner...
...Francine Larrimore, last seen in Chicago, easily carries Rachel Crothers' new play on her frequently-shrugged shoulders. The plot?a divorced couple's reunion brought about by his attractions for another girl?contains no weighty situations. The Crothers dialog is blithe if not brilliant...
...good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young man who has the air of being an actor in spite of himself, Richard Barthelmess has been in the show business most...