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...played since her rediscovery two years ago. A chronicle of defeated loyalty, it might have been done with less sentimental relish for the misfortunes of the principal character, but it is still an interesting, sometimes powerful picture which deserves the monetary rewards which it will doubtless achieve. Miss Dressler's troubles start when she marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving all his money to his wife, they suggest that she has murdered him with an overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends...
Loew's Orpheum-"Emma" with the veteran trouper Marie Dressler...
...current feature at the University, were not funny it would take its place along with the Seven Wonders of the world. There is scarcely an ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that...
...picture is continuously amusing, but there are individual incidents that are impossible to forget. In "Reducing" Miss Dressler has said that last word on getting into an upper berth. She is also the author of a consummately executed pistol wedding. The value of the picture is not diminished by the fact that the star never leaves the camera, but it is to be regretted that so skillful a comedienne as Miss Dressler should see fit to resort to occasional touches, light to be sure, of vulgarity to enhance gags that could exist independently...
University: "One Romantic Night" with Lillian Gish and Marie Dressler which should be at least entertaining. Also Bebe Daniels in "Lawful Larceny...