Word: flirts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist Government sent to England especially to fascinate him, in the '70s. ... I have even talked with a former steeplechase jockey who said that Mr. Gladstone once tried to flirt with his girl. ... I once met a man called Cecil Gladstone who is said to be Mr. Gladstone's 'illegitimate...
...Campus Flirt (Bebe Daniels). Herein a snobbish young lady is levelled down to democratic normalcy by collegiate pranks known only to cinema directors. After the reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...
Bebe Daniels plays the title role, but the title scarcely fits the role. The popular notion of a Campus Flirt, born of the novels of Percy Marks, and Scott Fitzgerald's maunderings upon the younger generation and jelly rolls, demands that a Flirt flirt. By the same token, if Flirt means flirt, Charlie Paddock means run. And except for one long distance shot of "the fastest human" showing his heels to a bunch of girl hurdlers, Paddock did even less running than Bebe did flirting...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...
...Theatre Guild, and, therefore, supposedly a gentleman of taste, has just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton...