Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He plays with gusto many parts?Napoleon, Joe Cans, Franz Schubert, Don Juan, Diablero?all waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning...
...Colonel did not restrain, rather he encouraged him. Morgan returned with a French bride. Soon after, Prohibition and its consequent troubles forced old Bird to set his distillery afire. Soon after that he died. Morgan opened a grocery store. Bird home became a Hebrew orphan asylum. Thus ends the pointless tale...
...Leatherneck (Pathe). This is a flashback melodrama of U. S. Marines in Eurasia. The complicated romance between the best-looking Marine and a Russian girl is so intelligently directed by Howard Higgin that at times you do not notice that the story is entirely pointless. Best shot: the camera moving from one face to another at a court-martial while a voice from an unseen source thunders accusations...
...Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual source of cash. Since several Baptist weeklies are appearing unmolested in Russia, the tirade of last week against "Rockefeller Bibles" seemed pointless, hysteric. Nonetheless it formed one of two major features in a new Soviet campaign to stamp out Religion, a thing so detested by the late founder of the Soviet State, LENIN, that he caused to be displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE...
...good as "Twice Thirty", and one regrets to see the man who could write such biographies as "The Man From Maine" and "The Americanization of Edward Bok" descending to the trivialities of Hmericks, often stale jokes, and even at best, a disjointed mass of, for the most part, pointless anecdote...