Word: mannequins
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...character displayed before a polite background, all very smooth and able, obeying all the ordinances which she had laid down. It is only when she writes travesties upon a style and a subject not hers, as in the mock Saturday Evening Post story of the professor and the mannequin, that her facility shows its skeleton. And a very good skeleton...
...Mannequin. Some time ago $50,000 was posted by Famous Players for a prize scenario, the same to be serialized in Liberty, and Fannie Hurst came first. This is the picture. It does not seem to be a desperately original invention, dealing as it does with a girl (Dolores Costello) stolen in babyhood and brought up as a model in a dress shop. She kills someone, and the matter of the death penalty for women is discussed in detail. The picture is exceedingly well directed by James Cruze, and played so well by Alice Joyce (the mother) as to eliminate...
Metropolitan-- "Mannequin", with Alice Joyce...
Talleyrand, one of the heroes of the play, is unreal and devoid of spirit. He is a badly dressed mannequin. Talleyrand is too complicated a character to be presented on the stage and Sacha Guitry makes him everything but what he was. The other characters are not any better...
...France has created a M. Bergeret, a professor of history, who possessing a keen power of criticism, can lash unceasingly the failings of the decadent class. In the four comedies, "L'Orme du Mail," "Le Mannequin d'Osier," "L'Anneau d'Amethyste" and "M. Bergeret a Paris," various characters appear, who through their ignorance of the changing conditions are easily made butts for the audience to laugh at. Pity is always indicated, so that the laugh cannot develop into cruelty...