Word: flappering
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Most significant of the pledges made at Chicago is that to save the flapper and the sheik from each other. Worthy matrons and spinsters are horrified at "the changed mode of living today which is so vitally different from that of our grandparents." The frankness of modern manners is all wrong, they...
...acts, the people act just about as all people act in the first two acts of a flapper comedy. The daughter of the house enters carrying a high alcoholic content acquired at a Manhattan bachelor's apartment. The father of the house philanders with females of whom his wife, up to the time her good friend Mrs. Mazareen tells her about it for her own good, knows little. Thereupon the wife lights a cigarette and starts out to plug the domestic puncture by proving that she can be the gayest of the household...
...life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from the name, and closes with million-dollar mergers, assisted by the flapper granddaughter of a financial magnate. Izzy marries the flapper, and the villain is shot?anonymously but most satisfactorily?dead. It is an enjoyable story by the late creator of Wallingford and Blackie Daw, but it falls, perhaps, somewhat short of the heights attained by those classic heroes...
...Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...
Cytherea. Not a very sincere or inspired attempt to capture the rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...