Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elsie. Just another musical comedy, picked, it would seem, at random from the patent filing case of girl and musical entertainment. The plot, formula 7-B, concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical...
...Commandment. A conventionally sentimental tear-teaser, pleasing only because of Colleen Moore, who manages to be charming as the poor young working-girl with the invalid husband, and George Cooper, whose comedy has genuine humor and finesse...
KIKI-Lenore Ulrich entering the last lap in her long career as the naughty little grisette who wasn't such a bad girl after all. Belasco hokum at its best...
POLLY PREFERRED - Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and finally a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes most of the laughs...
...from the society of London and comes to Rhodesia disguised as a man. She falls in love with Druro and throughout the book tries to save him from self destruction. The story offers nothing new: In fact it is rather trite. Moreover the improbability of a young and beautiful girl, living as a man, and with men over an extended period of time and still keeping her disguise, rather spoils what might otherwise have been a very powerful novel. The description of Rhodesian life and people is so well done however, and Miss Stockley writes so vigorously and so well...