Word: youths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Janet Gaynor, newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
Ineffectual Prince August Wilhelm is just now the freak in Count von Westarp's Monarchist side show. His plump, effectual onetime spouse, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, divorced him in 1920. Their son, Prince Ferdinand, just about to turn swart 16, already drills with a Monarchist "Youth Corps...
...catastrophe ensues. . . . The city dies. The nation without the vital lymph of youth and new generations, cannot resist and, being composed of cowardly old people, must necessarily fall a prey to younger peoples knocking at its deserted frontiers...
...simultaneous lifting of eyebrow and stroking of whiskers than most cinemactors can in 500 feet of ponderous leering, has been permitted to graduate from the oaf class into the wider world of characterization. Louise Brooks, as usual, is decorative, never decorous. Richard Arlen does honestly the flaming-tempered youth...
...given melody." If Author Huxley's "given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress...