Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was. We enjoyed the bill so much we even neglected to feel impatient for Ted Lewis to come on. From the Aesop's Fable cartoon (which is our favorite form of movie) to the lady who achieved incredible slow-motion acrobatic tricks with her strong-arm partner, this bill kept us thoroughly entertained. Truly, the acrobatic lady, we think, is truly fortunate in having chosen a profession which keeps in trim her beautiful figure. The trick bicycle riders who opened the show broke the ground very nicely for King and Beatty, who did a Bullard and Cogan...
...Lone Wolf. A good stock picture with a trick airplane pursuit at the finish and nifty parachute feats. Jack Holt plays in his customary personable manner the favorite criminal of Louis Joseph Vance. A good fellow at heart, he has just a few lovable weaknesses where necklaces are concerned. Also, Jack seems just a bit too suave and well-tailored, even in Apache disguise. He fights off a band of Apaches known as "the Pack" while they try to smuggle out of France the secret army plans that nowadays replace the child and the papers in well-built melodrama...
...conscious that Doug was acting a good part; in this Arabian Nights fantasy one is not aware that he is acting at all. And in the same way, one is not conscious of the impossibility of the multitude of mysterious and magic occurrences which are continually taking place. Every trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights and woven them together into a fairy story that cannot fall to delight and enchant the youngest...
Secrets. Norma Talmadge has an uncanny trick of enhancing her beauty year after year while new screen stars rise before the camera, harden into the semblance of cabaret girls, then iris out. In this triplicate role, she is first a romantic eloper, then a wife struggling with her husband in the American wilderness, then the forgiving wife of a philandering notable...
...final act turns into an indignation meeting against the forces of evil, at which the audience itself become the seething citizenry. The first night gathering entered hilariously into the spirit of this trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude...