Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture of a peasant marriage includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While his son is in the army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier-son comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life...
This Is Heaven (United Artists). Anyone who likes the movies will like this trite, gentle little picture about an immigrant girl who falls in love with a rich man posing as a chauffeur. In the early episodes of their flirtation, and later, when love is frustrated temporarily by one of those misunderstandings based upon questioned chastity, you experience an atmosphere which has been for years the national atmosphere of the Cinema, but which is now being replaced by other, heartier, less elementary qualities of plot and treatment. Vilma Banky, who acts nicely, talks at times in a Hungarian accent...
Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...
Thirty-two years ago in Meriden, Conn., a beady-eyed little girl was born to the Ponzillios, thrifty Italian immigrants. They named her Rosa. As she grew older she was always singing. She sang over her lessons in school, over the dishes at home, in the church choir. Her first job was as entertainer in the local "nickelodeon." Her fame spread locally, she was offered a position at New Haven's Molone's restaurant at the fabulus figure of $50 per week. Meanwhile, her elder sister, Carmela, entered smalltime vaudeville with her contralto voice. Rosa joined forces with...