Word: chameleon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material. After a routine educational feature about bees you see how ants get the best of a caterpillar, and how a snail beats them; how they get drunk after drinking a secretion of the green wood bugs. Disguised as a twig, the praying mantis stalks its dinner, and the chameleon, wearing stockings, stalks the praying mantis. The film, winds up with the celebrated fight between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even so is a brilliant collection of facts, much easier to remember and much more interesting than...
...christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada has 391 different attitudes and colors according to the sex of the president. It transforms itself-affirms-at the same time contradicts-without any importance-cries- goes fishing, Dada is the chameleon of rapid and interested change, Dada is opposed to the future, Dada is dead." Added Andre Gide: "These two syllables [Dada] reached the goal of sonorous inanity...
Seeing her bow was strange. After her chameleon magic, it was hard to believe that she was real at all, that her own personality existed outside of the many personalities which it is her ability to inhabit. Under the control of an illusion still, you felt that maybe this was another imitation, that Ruth Draper was really; someone else inside of this small, alert, bowing actress...
...insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival. The farce is spotted with easy gags, is occasionally deft, never hysterical. Kenneth MacKenna as Pierre, Lucile Nikolas...
...most of all, because she refused to descend to the level of her audience. For the theatregoer who storms the box office to see his or her cinematic god or goddess in person, however, the notions that the movie star should play the sedulous ape on the stage and chameleon-like run through their past repertory of screen characterization, is one of the pseudodoxia epidemica which die hard...