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...Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly crook. It would be much funnier cut to two reels and without its terrible subtitles. Best shot: Cohen trying to get his wallet away from...
...vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best shot: Sonny Boy in the clothes-hamper...
...valuable than intimacy. Their belief is supported by Show People which, in spite of Marion Davies' acting. King Vidor's directing, and the hilarious rehearsal of a pie-comedy, reminds you that Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies, written seven years ago, was both funnier and more human than anything dealing with the same subject has been since...
...were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent public, eager doubtless to see the sumptuous settings, crawled, in surreptitious droves, to see Chee-Chee...
Partners in Crime. Wallace Beery, stupid sleuth, is told to "go and make a down payment on a brain, as everybody else has one." Raymond Hatton, sometimes a scampering reporter and sometimes a knife-wielding gangster, is the cause of Mr. Beery's bewilderment. There are funnier things in the world than mistaken identity, but they are not present in this film...