Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American annals than those in the collection Gold and Iron. There are few better novels than The Three Black Pennies. Those who consider some of Hergesheimer's characters passionless must seek his emotion in words. He often characterizes a screen as lovingly as a woman. Nothing is so inanimate as to be stone to this high priest of the senses...
...book in its time was a sensation, dealing as it did with girls who dared everything in order to accumulate a little experience. Now it seems like just a modest little evening at home, compared to all the Flaming Youth's that have lately tried to set the screen on fire. In order to put novelty into it, the heroine is made to say, with the pertinacity of a parrot, "I'm a good girl; I expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson, looking her prettiest, is probably so well-behaved because...
Recoil. Psychology, which now and again finds a place on the screen, gets in some of its best work here. In this film transcription of Rex Beach's story, an American girl, forced by privation to become an adventuress, marries a wealthy man for his money, deserts him and seeks love with a crook. The avenging husband forces them to live together, threatening to expose the woman for bigamy, and then, as propinquity causes them to hate each other, the fight begins. Betty Blythe (in a blonde wig), Mahlon Hamilton and Clive Brook show some very human reactions...
Changing Husbands. Dual identity breaks out again on the screen, after lying quiet for a while. Pictures wherein two persons with absolute resemblance exchange places are always unconvincing, even though a theatrical paper not so long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands...
...Reckless Age. Reginald Denny is fairly pleasing in this screen translation of the insurance salesman who straightens out a policy of a British nobleman insuring him against failure in his American fortune hunting. But what the screen, surfeited with tales of gilded youth, needs most of all is a picture called "Wild Grandpops...