Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where...
...Stevens has been giving, strenuous tubbing practice to each of the oarsmen. In addition to showing each man the fine points of the stroke while the two, oarsman and coach, are in the double shell, motion pictures have been taken and the man has seen his errors on the screen in the evening...
...Marriage Cheat. This little screen sister of Rain has a steady downpour on its South Sea island. Also, it has a minister who fis sorely tempted, after preaching Hellfire and brimstone at the poor native sinners who wear their sins openly. But in this case the rain washes everyone clean. The minister who plans to leave with the woman he loves?a wife who has fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture...
Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...
Cytherea. Not a very sincere or inspired attempt to capture the rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...