Word: glow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zane Grey is a good writer. His immense popularity should not dim that fact. His descriptive passages sometimes glow with beauty and imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...
...Chaloner has delivered these "messages" on darkened church platforms and theatre stages of Manhattan, draped gracefully over a piano and dimly silhouetted by a yellow glow. He writes them out, admitting equably beforehand that "he has nothing really to do with them...
...glow; and all wild beauty drifting, shifting...
...fact, the whole production, coming after Miss Taylor's sunny California radiance, seems bathed in a quiet, phosphorescent glow. Miss Keener, in endeavoring to portray the little Irish-American girl who-flung into the center of a snobbish English household-shows up its caddishness and wins a handsome Cholly-boy for herself, handles her part with kid gloves...
...only when Hero and Villain, again in the north woods, peel off 14 overcoats and fight. Men. This is all woman, for it Is all Pola Negri. It is her best picture to date, although it does follow beaten trails through Montmartre. She plays with all the matchless glow of her temperament the role of a young woman who hates all men for what a few of them have done to her, until the right young man awakens her love by giving her a good shaking. One of the striking features is a magnetic students' ball in Paris, that...