Word: franticness
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...unfamiliar. This current Cinderella is a slavey, wins a beauty contest, becomes a picture star. Her sweetheart is an ice man. Many old quips are kneaded in, even the one about growing sick over a cigar. This is the kind of picture that makes serious supporters of the cinema frantic; and the kind of picture that makes much money. Miss Moore is, as usual, excellent...
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harry Langdon). Frantic farce cannot be estimated in detail. Such a critique would simply be a catalogue of gags. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is such a catalogue. It is one of those pictures in which a man gets into bed with an electric fan and emerges in a storm of feathers. There is a plot about a cross-country race to advertise a shoe store. Mr. Langdon is often funny. The picture is often funny...
...While the Kaiser was making frantic efforts to avoid the impending catastrophe, the German military leaders seeing that his efforts would be futile effected a speedy mobilization of the German forces. And then when hostilities had clearly gone beyond human control, they saw, that hemmed in on all sides as they were, their only chance for preservation lay in striking first...
Find Daddy. A frantic farce, about a baby that nobody wanted but everybody claimed, lasted just one week. It was perhaps the loudest performance this year and certainly the most athletic. Noise and perspiration, however, could not prevail. There was, nevertheless, one glowing line. The paternity of the housemaid's baby had just been fastened upon two married and apparently blameless males. "And to think," muttered the horrified heroine, "that both of them are Harvard...
Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...