Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devil's Circus. What happens when a little girl is seduced by a lion tamer is here discussed. The circus queen loved the lion tamer and stirred up a horrid row. Norma Shearer, the girl, manages to make an average film fair entertainment...
Kongo is also tropical, and it too seethes. It is surrounded and all but smothered in a wealth of Africal detail from tom-toms to a native girl who wants a kiss-kiss. In the midst of this jungle of atmosphere is a huge man (white) paralyzed from the waist down. He is bent upon revenging himself on a man (also white) who has wronged him years before. The play is remorseless, obvious and undeniably effective. Sufficient portions of sex are, of course, added. It will serve nicely for those who now and then like to take the whole evening...
...Dancer of Paris. This is Michael Arlen's first work to appear in the movies and the first major work of his unblessed by his uncanny flair for titles. It sounds just like a movie, and indeed it proves to be just that. It is about a girl (Dorothy Mackaill) who tries to make an Englishman jealous by dancing with all the gigolos in Europe. In the process she meets and quite succumbs to Conway Tearle...
...Crown of Lies. The supply of Balkan kingdom plays seems limitless, and as long as we must have them reproduced it is just as well that there are people like Pola Negri to perform. In this one she is a girl in a Manhattan theatrical boarding house who abruptly finds herself Queen of Sylvania...
Bride of the Storm is a pretty bad melodrama about a girl who was stranded on a distant reef inhabited by horrible men with bad ideas. She is rescued by a lovely young lieutenant, and none too soon you may be sure. Dolores Costello, loveliest and latest discovery among actresses, is wasted in the part...