Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...household kicking up her heels to show her offspring how stupid is the current young society is once more pulled out of hiding and brushed off for inspection. To make matters worse, it is taken very seriously. There is just one flash of inspiration when the very sweet daughter of the household suddenly turns out to be the temptress...
...charm, it has escaped the praise of those who applaud only the more obvious successes. It comes unheralded by George M. Cohan or Arthur Hammerstein, for as yet it has not attained that mature development that such prominence demands. "Baby Blue" is a dainty, fragile thing with a few sweet songs and a great deal of light buoyant humor. After a great many suggestive comedies and heavy revues of the Winter season, it brings with it the fresh, clean breath of Spring...
...refreshing enough to justify the existence of the show, but they are not forced to stand alone. Miss Irene Dunne, who has yet to acquire a New York reputation and a forced manner, is young and exquisitely attractive. She is not a finished dancer, but her voice is sweet and compelling, and her stage presence graceful and unaffected. Mr. Fred Hildebrand dances eccentrically and sings far from badly, and together with Miss Wynne Gibson, his irrepressible dancing partner, does some excellent clowning. The chorus is young and enthusiastic, although it lacks that driving rhythm in its steps which only comes...
...Supreme Moment. A title like this will pack them into the cinema theatre, people say. Certain types of minds would walk a mile to stay away from it. Unfortunately, these latter lose. With Blanche Sweet acting her exceptional best, the entertainment is a better than average sample. She plays an actress with whom a man in the audience falls in love. Off they go to South America, where she poses as his sister. Intrigue, native rising and a final happiness unravel. Two stretches of brilliant color film help considerably...
...fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans heard it and humped themselves, their feet running wild...