Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such shoddy human stuff the Shahkta Trial is providing an unprecedented thrill for Soviet Russians-who are deprived of porno-tabloids, sex dramas, and even mystery plays by the wisdom and dictatorship of the Communist Party...
...ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe return of the rest of her party, and, not without a thrill, allows herself to be held as hostage...
...feminine contingent will get their customary thrill out of Rod La Rocque and his antics as a deshing young adventurer for whom the bandits "stand and Deliver." This young man is always dashing and adventurous, or is supposed to be. He dashes around quite a bit in this picture with Lupe Velez, whom those who were so unfortunate as to see "The Gaucho" will remember. Together they put romance on the map in the Balkans, and cause Warner Oland, wh plays the renegade, to lead a miserable existence. This photoplay will be forgotten before one is past the portals...
Princeton, on the other hand, represents the spirit of eternal youth. Her sons are capable of a beautiful emotion. If they do not show it they are afraid outsiders might suspect that they do not love Princeton. No graduate is ever too old to thrill to the singing of "Old Nassau" with his napkin waving on high. Annual atendance at a Triangle Club show assumes the aspect of a religious devotion. Heaven itself must seem to him incomplete if there is no little corner where Princeton men may congregate. --Baltimore Evening...
Pola Negri's glittering photodrama "Three Sinners" is one of those pictures which thrill backwoods audiences and cause girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast...