Word: flapper
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...Moderns. It seems eminently right and thoroughly as it should be to see Colleen Moore in a role which Helen Hayes played on the stage. Each is the most enduring flapper of her domain. When Miss Hayes played the drama (by Israel Zangwill) it was not a success. No stronger is the story in the films. It tells of a modern miss who chased all over London after the man she loved. There is, however, a good deal of Colleen Moore, which is more than enough for many...
...still flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
Colleen Moore found herself catapulted into fame some years ago on the strength of a pert little face and a spontaneity of manner which exactly typified flapperdom. Now that the flapper has gone, it would seem that Colleen's day is done. We understand that she is married now. She certainly acts like it in "We Moderns...
This girl is played by Helen Hayes. She is probably our most consistent flapper. And yet somehow you wonder how she can go on like that night after night talking synthetic slang and just being her very nice self. Katharine Cornell should trade her one of her tragedies...
...Best People. Too many younger-generation pictures have come and gone, making money in the process, for one to complain viciously of this one. If you are of the people who have seen a flapper annoy her mother and finally marry the family chauffeur, or any of a dozen variations on the popular theme-if you have watched and liked it, you will approve The Best People...