Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Thank You. John Golden's home town idyl of a minister and his flapper visitor from Paris is hereby done over for the Cinema. With Alec Francis as the minister, Jacqueline Logan as the girl, and George O'Brien as the man she marries, it makes good routine amusement. Never a great drama for the intellectuals, it has been further boiled down for movie fans...