Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
When one has read a certain novel, he may be interested in seeing a film made from that particular tale; but, as the title is often changed, how is he going to learn the facts unless you give them? I depend upon your column for all the information I have of the cinema world...
...Field Marshal Moltke, the victor of Sadowa and Sedan,* a bust of Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. Pale with rage and horror, he rushed through the Reichstag like one possessed, telling his friends of the sacrilege he had seen. His friends rushed off to verify the tale and found to their horror that not only had Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding loudly and angrily to be told why the great heroes of the Empire...
Marry Me. The vogue of the light comedy is assuming permanent proportions. Florence Vidor is involved in this one which tells the tale of a rural maiden engaged to one John Smith. She writes her acceptance on an egg shell which is delivered to the wrong John Smith in a distant city. The latter is interested in matrimony but more particularly in proving, through the lady, the unconscionable period which a cold storage company had kept...
Night Life of New York. Dorothy Gish, Rod LaRocque and Ernest Torrence are no trivial trio to begin with, and their current fable gives good opportunity. It is another light comedy, the tale of a Western youth cast loose along Broadway with adequate funds. It brings in, by picture and by name, all the actual night clubs of the district, a comely telephone operator, a father who fails to impress upon his son the ultimate delights of the domestic fireside...