Word: silkenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claudia Particella, whose father was the Cardinal's counsellor, had retired to Castle Toblino, guarded and defended by a group of ruffians in whom the Cardinal placed the utmost confidence. . . . "Beneath her silken robe was visible the provocative outline of her body. . . . Her half-closed eyes understood the sorcery of poisonous passion...
...Dance (Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell)-Good acting on the subject of the Russian revolution. Somewhat sentimental.* The Magnificent Flirt (Florence Vidor) -Modern, silken, original, with a Parisian setting...
...dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly or allow the brother...
...Love and the Ladies," Mrs. Abbott has refused to mix black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...
...Play Girl. Again, gold is dug and various parts of the female form peep out from silken things. The form belongs to Madge Bellamy, who plays a girl in a flower shop at the Ritz-Plaza...