Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort. In the first place, Dr. Relling, the only character in the play besides Gina herself who sees the other members of the household as they really are, shows distinct sympathy for her. She is living in an atmosphere of romantic illusion which she knows is the most comfortable thing for her family. In the second place Gina is the only member of the household who ever does any real work. Beside her domestic cares she handled her husband's photographic business while he dreams away over his inventions. The fact that circumstances had forced her to be another...
...Boston Post: "Most of them (college papers), in the youthful ardor of their literary souls, allow that something must be done to 'deflate the exaggerated emphasis on college football'. And perhaps some thing should...
...originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...
...instance of "The Splendid Crime", as in her last venture, "Lovers in Quarantine", she does not hesitate to make herself as unattractive as possible, which is a thing we cannot help but admire. So many, many moving picture actresses, even in these days of good direction, curb their dramatic potentialities by refusing ever to look ugly. We could name half a dozen who continually appear, with the aid of trick photography, as something between an archangel and an artist's model. But, in the long run, tooth enamel, and spot-lights below one's double chin, will never take...
...advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes to prove that the story deals not in pearls but in cartridges. The one thing we actually liked about the picture was Robert Ames, the unfeatured male lead. He was young enough and attractive enough to aid Miss Joy considerably...