Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bread. A soggy, tasteless adaptation of the novel by Charles G. Norris, leavened only by an improvement in the acting of Mae Busch. Mr. Norris, to encourage home-life and the patter of tiny feet, drew a penny-scrimping stenographer to whom marriage was bliss at first, then mere unbearable penny-scrimping. She left her husband, never went back, was sorry ever after. On the screen she comes gushing back for the usual reconciliatory osculation. Never were worse subtitles committed...
...vaudeville and musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing act, supplying much slang and local patter. The chief feeder to Fields is Jules Jordan, in the roll of Dave Loeb, attorney whom Henkel employs in his lawsuit against Tyler for the recovery of the rights to Moonlight Mama...
Pictures are drawn for the avid imaginations of magazine readers of tiny citizens absurdly caparisoned in velvet and plumes waiting daily for a director who requires the patter of little feet about the house to motivate his final clinch. Though there are laws which insist upon the education of movie children, we are led to believe that the education is scattered thinly through sessions before the blinding Kleig lights and interrupted by the hammering of carpenters and the yammering of stars...
Gold-leaf offers for the patter of little feet...
...patter of little feet about the house, one recalls, was the single feature of any true importance during the recent prize fight proceedings at Shelby, Mont. The feet belonged to one Patricia Salmon and the house was the Red Onion Dance Hall. Patricia was leading lady of the Hyman-Welly traveling tent show...