Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris (Charles Ray). The French government has a legitimate grievance against the movie makers. To the American millions who see the world from the screen of the local cinema palace, Paris has become an absurdity. Only one thing happens. Chivalrous Americans infest Montmartre rescuing poor Apache girls from the dance dives. A girl has no chance to lead a decent life of shame in Paris any more, if we are to believe the movies. It always turns out that she was not really leading a bad life after all. It seems that a Parisian girl is not safe from Americans...
Minnie Elizabeth Webster, a moving picture agent in New York, has written to R. P. MacFladden '26, asking him to suggest some names of men who might qualify for the silver screen. If Miss Webster finds the man she is looking for, he will not have to work up from the bottom of the moving picture business, as a leading part is prepared and awaits only the right man to fill...
Volcano (Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez). The stage this week, as listed elsewhere, had its South Sea show with a restless volcano for shock effect. So too, the screen. The screen can, of course, do much better by a volcano than can the stage. The eruption in this picture is excellently emotional, if one has after hundreds of movies emotion left for natural disorders. The story is pretty feeble, with Miss Daniels playing the "native" girl and Mr. Cortez the handsome, clear-skinned lover. The volcano bursts all over the middle of the sweet sentiment and ends the picture vigorously enough...
...which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate glimpses of crime, courtrooms and cops. A totally likable, but thoroughgoing scoundrel in the book is made into an unconscious crook in the screen version. The crowning movie touch, however, was a lurking dictaphone which displayed an amazing faculty for listening in on, and recording various bits of love making incriminating evidence...
...thing more We have not yet compared the screen version with the book, but this is merely because we have not read the book. But in any event, we heartily recommend the movie, for however different from the original--and we don't doubt that Hollywood has taken its usual liberties. "The Sea Beast" is very much well worth seeing...