Word: flapperisms
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...Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little one to get just near enough to the danger line to discover that she is better off far away in the arms of her own youthful, unmarried lover. It is pleasant, light...
...Very Wise Virgin. "It's a wise virgin knows her own boiling point," declares 18-year-old Flapper-Siren Betty. Seeing her ensnare a best friend's fiance, one infers that Betty has known her own boiling point well and often. Her triumph is not for long, however. Along comes a Russian lady-of-the-world whose experience extends over and beyond the boiling point, who therefore lures away the bewildered fiance, leaving Betty to marry a bashful doctor of twoscore years and more. Ultimately the best friend recaptures the twice-pilfered fiance. Joan Bourdelle, as Betty...
Mother (Belle Bennett). With Mothers' Day on the horizon, this moist film of a neglected mother was aptly released. Too much money inspires her son to dissipate his way into an elopement with a particularly degraded flapper, her husband into amours with a widow. A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home...
Petruchio made up as a cowboy, with leather chaps and cerise shift, sporting a long cattle whip, starts his tactics of taming the shrewish Katherina, by twining the whip about the shoulders of the screaming flapper, as he sings...
Camille (Norma Talmadge). The Lady of the Camelias was snatched from her period of languishing romance, as originated by Novelist Alexandre Dumas, and flung into the milieu of. flapper costumes, clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...