Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naughty Marietta is that lovely effort of Victor Herbert which contains the waltz "I'm Falling in Love with Someone." Use Marvenga's voice is as lissom as her figure. The third of a series of Victor Herbert revivals (TIME, Oct. 7), it is splendidly recreated in every detail...
Marianne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the most lamentable consequences of the singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot...
...Most Immoral Lady (First National). The duplicity of wives who lure rich men into compromising situations so that their husbands can collect money from them has long been familiar to theatre audiences. It is less common in the cinema. The hints that before long Leatrice Joy will fall in love with one of her dupes even keep her from being as boring as her stolid acting usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed...
...well you look this morning. What a fine overcoat! If I had one like that I'd go to the theatre tonight! . . . Look at all these letters, they are mostly from women, if they could see me now they wouldn't fall in love with me, would they...
Sample epigrams: "Jealousy and love are both instinctive emotions, but religion has decreed that jealousy is a virtuous emotion to which the community ought to lend support, while love is at best excusable...