Word: glitteringly
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This brief plot is motivated, behind its glitter of extravagant romance, by true and human emotions. Lionel Barrymore, onetime stage actor, is able to indicate the burly pathos of the hunchback who loves his brother as much as he does his wife but can forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...
...lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence. These tiny shadows are duplicated in Belvedere facsimiles...
...duchess is the slow bulging hub of a wheel whose whirling spokes are a glitter of medieval cities and country castles, deaths and tournaments and plagues. Jews who lent money and princes who rode through summer dusts or winter snows, bishops who begat bastards, kings who kept mistresses and died of wounds; all the remote and entangled brightness of a century, like all past
...good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave...
...transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet and fluffy chiffon and more red hot syncopation a la her Ziegfield "Follies" days would have attracted the thunderous applause with which the "Publix" audience greets atrocious slapstick...