Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus is an added attraction. Hal Skelly dances well, as does Mary Hay, who plays Mary Jane, and does everything else well too, but it is the Keene twins who carry off the Terpsichorean Laurrels. They danced like dry leaves before a breeze, and suited their name in every respect; we didn't see half enough of them. Those two and Mary Hay made an awfully big hit with us and indeed they were super-brilliant flashes in a show of more than ordinary brilliance...
...What he said to me afterward was that this speech cost him his self-respect, and yet he saw no way out of it at the time, and if he had to do it over again would have said the same thing. ' If,' he said, 'I had only myself to consider, perhaps I would have had the nerve to say what I really believed and risked defeat. But if I am defeated I am not the only sufferer. It means the defeat of my running mates. It means the loss of control of my party. It means disappointment and loss...
Marion. Mr. George laid a wreath on the tomb of President Harding and afterwards called on Mrs. Harding. Speaking from the platform of his train, he said: " I came to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of one who in his public life became beloved to the people of this country and the world...
Unseeing Eyes. Even as middle-aged inhabitants speak with awed respect of the blizzard of 1888 so will cinema citizens mention Unseeing Eyes. It is up to its chattering teeth in snow. From the Winter sports at Quebec, the hero and the girl start in an airplane. Forced down on a frozen lake, Lionel (Lionel Barrymore has the lead) lopes away on his snowshoes for aid. The blizzard breaks. The girl (Seena Owen) goes snow-blind and wanders into a spider's nest of villains. Fights of varying ferocity follow, airplane rescues, blazing refugees...
...Grand Guignol occupies a unique niche in the theatrical world; faithful followers of the drama can hardly omit it from their agenda and retain the while their self-respect. For the casual amusement seeker the entertainment is only mildly recommended. Particularly if his linguistic equipment is limited to "oui" and "Zelli...