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...Dance (Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell)-Good acting on the subject of the Russian revolution. Somewhat sentimental.* The Magnificent Flirt (Florence Vidor) -Modern, silken, original, with a Parisian setting...
...Magnificent Flirt. Laid in Paris, it leaves much to the imagination and runs along pleasantly and silkenly. The plot concerns a count (Albert Conti) who appreciates the attractions of a demimondaine (Florence Vidor); but he does not want her daughter to marry his young nephew. A tourist from the U. S. (Ned Sparks) also figures divertingly. Good acting, filmed with originality...
...LAUGHS (Conrad Veidt), TEMPEST (John Barrymore), RAMONA (Dolores Del Rio), SADIE THOMPSON (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), THE CROWD (Eleanor Boardman, directed by King Vidor...
...Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of the year: The Crowd, tragic story of a Manhattan clerk and wife; The Patsy, funny episodes of a suburban family that spends Sunday tiring itself out by trying to rest...
...Crowd. Director King Vidor and Scenarist John V. A. Weaver tell here honestly, finely, the story of an American Everyman, the man in the street, born to run with the pack. They put Eleanor Boardman, wife of Director Vidor, into the role of the wife, where she played with disconcerting beauty. They put James Murray, virile boy, into the part of John Sims, average child, average man. They seated him at a desk, one of a thousand clerks, high in a skyscraper. They sent him, fermenting with spring, to Coney Island with his girl, had him kiss...