Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only Woman. The old story of the girl who married the wastrel to save her father's crooked business fortunes. All the rest of the report is good news. Norma Talmadge played it in association with Eugene O'Brien. Sidney Olcott, who stands with Griffith, Lubitsch, and Cruze as one of the great directors, turned his hand to the old yarn and wove it into a bright and almost novel garment. Of late, Mr. Olcott has been directing in the East (Little Old New York, The Green Goddess, The Humming Bird) and deserted to do The Only Woman...
...always worried about the college education he had missed. His son was to go to college and proceed from there to the composition of deathless literature instead of the ephemeral magazine humor which paid the family bills so promptly. The son preferred business. Only his affection for a girl who could write palliated his father's incredulous discomfiture...
...most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection. It is a man-and-wife tragedy. The man is a drunkard and a beast. The woman is driven into the protecting arms of the family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual rather than a clipping from a Y.M.C.A. pamphlet, the play would be decidedly engrossing. Under the circumstances, it is a capable but not a compelling...
WHAT PRICE GLORY??Two marines fighting over a French girl for two acts, and against Germany for one. Permitting you to peer into the bottom of the cup and see the dregs...
CONSCIENCE?Lillian Foster luridly accurate in her portraiture of a girl who went wrong because starving did not appeal to her and because her husband was in jail where she could not appeal...