Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexican girl, a captain of the Texas Rangers, an alleged bandit. The vehicle is a handsome series of photographs, occasionally colored, of a musical comedy. Knowing that years of success had made the original music boring, the producers have put in some good new songs, the best being "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other." RKO's policy of revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines...
Town Boy tells of country girl who took her city sweetheart back to the barnyards, where he seemed pale indeed. When a bucolic beef eater smashed him on the chin, she realized however that she still loved him. Critic Robert Littell of the New York World: "I can think of no good reason for its existence." Critic Gilbert W. Gabriel of the New York American: "It has a certain pleading innocence about the badness of its writing." The New York Times: ". . . definitely a minor occurrence in the theatre...
...never-never land of Zilania is the scene for Sweethearts; a disguised princess (Gladys Baxter), the heroine given the Sweetheart waltz to sing; an heir presumptive (Charles Massinger), the hero ("Every Lover must Meet His Fate"). Both careful performers, they did well with tunes that are still fresh and crinkling...
...President Hoover last week first exercised executive clemency. In 1927, George Herbert Thompson, Washington Blackamoor, murdered his sweetheart. Five days before he was to step into the electric chair, President Hoover commuted his sentence to life imprisonment...
...picture. She goes down to her cabin and stands in front of the wash basin. Because she is standing there she starts to wash her hands, then all of a sudden, to keep from crying, sticks her head in the basin and begins to wash her hair. When her sweetheart comes in and hands her the towel she is groping for she pretends to him that everything is all right. She convinces you then that she has complete knowledge of her part, and you accept without much argument the later scenes in which, marrying a mild fellow ashore, she finally...