Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clothes Make the Pirate. Leon Errol, bald comedian with a bad leg, made his screen debut in Sally and has followed with a starring farce. He plays a weak-spined little tailor, who pines for romance and gets it through the medium of being kidnaped by pirates. A good deal of the comedy is based on Mr. Errol's noted knee, which gives out suddenly and often. Those in the smaller centres who have never seen this knee go wrong will be particularly amused...
...Moscow, Acting Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov was at some pains to deny loudly that the Soviet Union has the slightest intention of ever joining the League of Nations. He said: "Like the United States of America, we should continue to remain aloof. . . . The League is a mere screen for the oppression of small and weak nations by the Powers...
...haven't said a serious word about Miss Dempster yet. She escaped from a Mary Pickford tendency to fight in the streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls on and off the screen comparatively few times...
...sequel but as a companion piece for his first. It covers approximately the same time, the first quarter of the present century, and includes several characters of his first novel, including Lily Shane. He takes himself seriously and promises to make these "panel novels" into a screen, "which, when complete, will consist of at least a half-dozen panels all interrelated...
...Eagle. Rudolph Valentino has pulled himself successfully out of the mud. The last drying flakes of his tour in favor of Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...