Word: fakes
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...beauteous native girl (Maria Alba) who has run away from marriage on a nearby island. She likes Fairbanks, gets into bed with him. He extricates himself, calls her "cute." Meanwhile Fairbanks' returning friends stop at the nearby island that Maria Alba has left, hire the natives to fake a capture and the beginning of a stake-burning, to be interrupted by the friends. The natives come, find the escaped girl, carry out the stake-burning in earnest. But as Fairbanks' homemade shorts get hot, the monkey turns on the radio, the savages flee, the girl rescues Fairbanks. Both escape...
...really a sport but a tragedy, in which the matador is the literal hero. "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor." For a matador can fake brilliant passes, can even fool certain sections of the audience into thinking he is taking desperate chances when he is perfectly safe...
...exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that the dials he twiddled were fake ones, hooked up with nothing at all by radio men who were taking no chances. But the customers loved it, especially the fluttering ladies; they went on listening to novelties chiefly because Leopold Stokowski pontificated over them so impressively...
...view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework, singing the "Volga Boat Song...
...artists joined the Fakirs to try their hand at burlesque and swell the scholarship fund. Since the National Academy makes a great to-do over donating its prizes, Patron Sam Shaw used to give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper way to run a costume ball. There was no débutante-encumbered...