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ALMA-Margaret Fuller-Morrow ($2). Here is a character less rare in life than in literature, an oversexed angel set down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
...Mill (Marion Davies). In a Dutch inn, a scintillant slavey woos the wrong man for her girlfriend's sake, wins the right one (Owen Moore) for her own. But the really important thing about the film is that Marion Davies wears her blonde tresses in two heavy braids and discards the velvets of romantic royalty to charm in the homespuns of domestic Holland...
Little Spitfire-Another slavey in Southampton gets applause...
...Little Spitfire-Another slavey in Southampton. Applause...
Ella Cinders (Colleen Moore). If you study this title carefully and reverse it, you will find that it is not unfamiliar. This current Cinderella is a slavey, wins a beauty contest, becomes a picture star. Her sweetheart is an ice man. Many old quips are kneaded in, even the one about growing sick over a cigar. This is the kind of picture that makes serious supporters of the cinema frantic; and the kind of picture that makes much money. Miss Moore is, as usual, excellent...