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The Struggle (United Artists-D. W. Griffith). Director David Wark Griffith knew the patois of the cinema 15 years ago, but with his Abraham Lincoln of last year he revealed that he has not bothered to keep up with the times. The Struggle, written by Anita Loos and John Emerson...
The Social Register has a title which sounds as if the play might be a searching social document by Channing Pollock. Actually it is a comedy of bad manners, adapted from Anita Loos's But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Heroine is a chorus girl who has a heart of gold...
Everyone who knows John Chipman ("Johnny") Farrar-and few literary people there are in the land who have never met him-knows how precocious he is. Remembering his early leaps & bounds, his friends last week were not really as surprised as they might have been when his small, young firm...
To the credit of Miss Loos, there are spotty bits of catchy dialogue and even better situation. All in all, however, the subtle lewdness fails to materialize and the promised sophistication degenerates into drivel. There is a preponderance of acidity in the play which would have been expressed only if...
Like the Good Queen, Topsy would be hopelessly muffled if she could not underline, but she is not otherwise Victorian. An example of her style may remind you of Anita's Loos's famed blonde, but Topsy's fooling is not so sharp. "Only my dear don't think I...