Word: lila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan--"The New Klondike", with Thomas Melghan and Lila...
...part that brings memories of Wallace Reld and Lois Wilson shows that a bungalow apron is not essential to her success on the screen. Miss Wilson has always had, despite her at times cloying sweetness, remarkable personality, and the same kind of reticence that makes you feel noble when Lila Lee gazes upon you from the dark confines of the theatre. Furthermore, "ain't she thinner", as the ladies behind us remarked...
...Booth Tarkington. Our hero bluffs his old village into believing him an oil king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...
...Bride Retires. This product, adapted by Henry Baron from the French of Felix Gendera, was chiefly valuable for its reintroduction of Lila Lee to the speaking stage. She used to be a child actress and spoke her various pieces from many a vaudeville rostrum. Then came long years in the cinema and now the real ambition given scope. Unfortunately, the scope is somewhat limited, due to the ineptitude and the immodesty of the material in hand. It came from France and did not wait long to submit its witticisms to inspection. The general impression was that these witticisms could...
...heart into the thing, as well as her hips and shoulders. The picture is a pretty good imitation. Coming Through. Thomas Meighan is, as usual, quiet and strong, kindly and brave. He is the mine superintendent who averts the strike and hurls Wallace Beery (villain) off the scaffolding. Lila Lee is also implicated as his wife. As a careful copy of the usual Meighan formula, the film will no doubt prosper...