Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...
...like fantasy and words used with a peculiar understanding of their colors and sounds, read The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter or The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes...
...chewing gum. Arliss embodies a millionaire who takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile...
...Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...
...little cross-eyed girl who threw away her glasses...