Word: wastrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Icebound. Producer De Mille has dogged the footsteps of Owen Davis's play, except at the single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus...
...this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger son of a wealthy family (Richard Dix) when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy theatrical promoter...
...office superseded the local District Attorney. The wheels of justice were promptly set in motion. The prosecution secured another indictment from the new Grand Jury, on the theory that Peters was a poor boy, slain for some sinister reason by Ward, who was pictured as a wanton, wealthy wastrel...
Elsie. Just another musical comedy, picked, it would seem, at random from the patent filing case of girl and musical entertainment. The plot, formula 7-B, concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical...