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...What a Nurse. Sidney Chaplin, who since the success of Charley's Aunt has become virtually a perpetual female impersonator, has another one of the type. It is a fairly amusing tale about a man who wrote an "Advice to the Lovelorn" column and had to put on skirts because his dear public was pleased to meet...
...window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play to the tawdry "Tarzan of the Apes", by releasing a live ape named Prince Charley in the vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker. He writes "Next morning the story broke in every New York paper. Over long accounts of Charlie's adventures, were such headlines as, 'Tarzan's Ape Raids Knickerbocker Hotel' and 'Simian Royalty Steps...
...doubt whether this picture has the speed or the balance of "Charley's Aunt", but it is good for a great many laughs nevertheless...
...Madame Behave" Julian Eltinge is allowed to do all the cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous
...country. We wouldn't swap our ends. Bradford and Sayles, for Calvin Coolidge and the Secretary of State. We wouldn't swap our line for a French liner with all on board sailing east beyond the three-mile limit. And we wouldn't swap Bob Fisher and Charley Daly and Leo Leary and Eddie Mahan and Charley Tierney for all the Hawleys and--" the rest of his speech was lost in a great roar of approval from the crowd...