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With comedy it's only something less so. Where the dramatist falls ; down the dressmaker rises up. Costumes can make a good play better, or they can make a bad play ; pass for good. Sweet Nell takes gate receipts in good part on its costume. The last act of H. B. Warner's You and I is bolstered with gratuitous ; masquerade. Polly Preferred owes greatly to its costumes. And who can say how much has 18th century satin won of The Rivals and The School for Scandal...
...SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY?Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard- wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...
...Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Innocuous, sentimental, pleasant claptrap of the days of Charles II, written by Paul Kester, revived for Laurette Taylor. Brocade and periwigs, exclamations of " Oddsfish! " and "me lud" and "la!", a couple of "big scenes," Laurette Taylor charming and well assisted...
...have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy, and oh what a pathetic time he does have! Financially the picture should be a regular rhinestonemine. We suggest as its logical successor Old Curiosity Shop, with Jackie as Little Nell. Prodigal Daughters, Two young daughters of a rich papa decide to Live Their Own Lives, and get into the usual pecks of trouble doing it. But the story fulfills its function in giving Gloria Swanson an opportunity to wear as many different varieties of expensive clothes as ever. The Dayton Photoproducts Company is said...
...Donald F. Bush, Jr., Chairman, Miss Sarah Sage; John S. Amory, Miss Nell White; J. S. Clark, Jr., Miss Elizabeth Wayne; Morris Duane, Miss Cintra Ellis; Henry W. Howe, Miss Betty Thompson; Herbert L. Pratt, Jr., Miss Rosamond Adie; Ridley Watts, Jr., Miss Laura Taylor...