Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Depressed by Esther's marriage, Meyer goes to a call house with Margot, Riverside Drive street walker. Both become very drunk. Madame Mina of the call house finds Meyer is a lawyer. Says Madame Mina: "Downstairs is the janitor woman, a widow. She's got one girl, only 16. She's been away for four days. She was with the iceman's girl. All evening the mother was after Jennie to tell where she's been and what she has been doing. A millionaire. . . . You know the reformer. . . .Yes, that's the name...
Through the Dark. To those who have learned through long acquaintance with the cinema that crooks have hearts of gold, the moral of this film will undoubtedly appeal. A simple boarding school girl assists a criminal to escape from San Quentin prison by a pleasantly incredible device; drawn into his underworld life, she finally regenerates him with her love. On the face of it such a yarn seems almost impossibly cinemesque. Colleen Moore manages to make it plausible in spots...
...immigrant girl from a Texas farm departs to the more entertaining surroundings of the St. Louis slums. A year or two of this and she is almost done. She forces an exit, and we next see her as a successful business woman in New York. On the eve of an advantageous marriage, she is overtaken by a lurking virus of her earlier obliquity, is driven to suicide...
...annoyed at the sturdy significance of Roseanne. For it seems to be one of the more important components of the current theatrical constituency. The story deals with the religious rascality of a Negro priest. In the midst of a howling revival meeting, word comes that he has seduced a girl. Promptly the galvanic emotion of his congregation is transmuted from thoughts of personal salvation to a desire for their preacher's temporal destruction...
Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt...