Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caveman methods mingle with cigars and red roses to make an unconvincing picture of a political boss. He seems to imagine he can browbeat a girl into marrying him in the same way his henchmen intimidate voters at the polls. In the last six seconds she decides she likes it. The need for a quick finish to the picture seems to be the deciding factor. Until then she had merely tolerated his attentions, which included three carloads of roses, one large display of fireworks for her birthday party, season tickets for her guests to baseball and the opera...
...Next Corner. A young American wife (Dorothy Mackaill) whose husband (Conway Tearle) is in Argentina finds that castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether...
Daddies. As many chuckles as there are children. The story is negligible, churning out farce and romance by turns arbitrarily. It can be summed up thus: Five bachelors who adopt eight war orphans-one of them a grown girl (Mae Marsh)- are equal to one love affair, plus a dozen spankings. This being the era of the child on the screen, audiences laugh incessantly at the bumptious brats before licking their...
...intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...
...girl just beginning a singing career," she says. "In Paris I heard that Mr. Hammerstein was in the city engaging artists for his New York opera house. I went to his hotel to see him and try to gain an audition. He was sitting in the lobby, and I was directed...