Word: basked
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Rustle of Silk. Better than average acting is dissipated in the weakly wandering film from Cosmo Hamilton's novel. Betty Compson, Conway Tearle, Anna Nilsson, and Cyril Chadwick are asked to convince the customers that a girl will become a lady's maid simply to bask in the presence of her beloved-the lady's husband. Their love fuses. Finally, the hero becomes Prime Minister. There are flashbacks of Watteau shepherdesses and a few shootings. Out of the conglomerate mass it is possible that there are two or three selected bits which will appeal to everyone. Possibly...
LITTLE LIFE STORIES?Sir Harry Johnston?Macmillan ($2.00). Sir Harry, explorer, scientist and novelist, has at last elected to stand on his own literary feet. And he is much more successful than when he chose simply to bask in the light of the illustrious?as in The Gay-Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter. He gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed...