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...only one fault that bulges out. That is her disposition to play before the camera too infrequently. It is the opinion of many that she is a figure, that she should be fixed in the fronk rank. The Siren is one strong proof. The story tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing...
...save her father's crooked business fortunes. All the rest of the report is good news. Norma Talmadge played it in association with Eugene O'Brien. Sidney Olcott, who stands with Griffith, Lubitsch, and Cruze as one of the great directors, turned his hand to the old yarn and wove it into a bright and almost novel garment. Of late, Mr. Olcott has been directing in the East (Little Old New York, The Green Goddess, The Humming Bird) and deserted to do The Only Woman in Hollywood...
...Significance. As literature, Mr. Hughes' story is, regrettably, not pure gold. But as a cracking good yarn strung on historical data, it deserves mention. In its pages are fascinating glimpses of early American history, revitalized. Days of the sprawling growth of the bristly, sturdy little Nation, days of triumph for Washington, of jealousy between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, ended so tragically on the bluffs at Weehawken, days of wickedness and glamour in the dazzling French Court, days of snobbery and naivete in awkward little New York, days of the fizzing of "the waters" at Saratoga and the journeys...
MEET THE WIFE? A kittenish wife plays perkily with two husbands instead of the usual ball of yarn...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH !"-Lionel Barrymore in a shiny new version (Belasco) of the clown yarn-he who could smile for everyone but himself...