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...romantic and aestheic elements so healthily mixed in an atmosphere so familiarly strange that its reception was easily predictable. With such its attraction, the insinuating suggestion that its peculiar pictorial display, which so readily drew workers, may have helped to swell the tide of favor, can but skirt the vulgar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SAMARKAND | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

...Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy, out of her snobbishness, loathed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful matrimony; never was it considered in the least immoral. Later, however, the game was regarded as a trifle vulgar: from the latter part of the 18th Century it suffered a gradual decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of True Minds | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...translated into cinematic dialect, it seemed probable that only a faint echo of its hilarity would remain. Such is not the case. Ruth Taylor as the very arch criminal, Lorelei Lee, is so coy, and cogently appealing that it becomes easy to believe in her conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei, is neatly played by Alice White. It would have seemed not incredible had their jaunt to Paris, underwritten by Mr. Eisman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...this time in a small Alpine village. Its inhabitants, with the exception of one beautiful girl, find their presence highly disagreeable. Wallace Beery becomes an Alpine guide, a profession in which his efforts are ludicrously insufficient. As Now We're in the Air at one point descended to extraordinarily vulgar farce, so Wife Savers allows its plot to depend upon a somewhat ribald interpretation of a note, written by the heroine, in which she informs the hero that he will have to marry her because she is in trouble. Wallace Beery also confesses in a subtitle that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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