Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plastered in Paris. Guffaws will grow among those people who pronounce it "moom pitcher," who view this bad piece about a kleptomaniac ex-soldier at the American Legion convention in Paris. The star is Sammy Cohen, cast as Samuel Nosenbloom...
Almost eleven years ago, when the perfunctory audit of the Home Mission Board was completed, a tall, ascetic-looking auditor made apt suggestions, so impressed the star Boarders that they sent for him a few months later when the treasurer of the Home Mission Board resigned. The job included control of the board's funds, paid a salary of $4,500 a year...
Jarnegan is successful with the loose ladies of Los Angeles but there is one, a demure 16-year-old with "something in her eyes," whom he wished only to make into a star. When she dies of the effects of an operation, Jarnegan grows furious. He visits the mansion where an executive is giving a party; here, he states convincingly that the executive is a murderer, that the mother of a celebrity runs "a two-dollar house in Seattle"; then he shakes the rival director who has defiled the 16-year-old star. This is also profane and exciting...
...Tully's soapy sentimentality. Richard Bennett does most of the acting; Joan Bennett, his daughter and the sister of famed Constance Bennett, is beautiful and well cast as the 16-year-old unfortunate. The truest thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl and wraps herself wildly in a black lace shawl...
...HIGH ROAD-Lonsdale wit leading to an unhappy crisis in the career of a stage star who has fallen in love with a lord-played perfectly by Edna Best and others (TIME, Sept...