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Incredible as it may seem, flaming youth still flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
...film is full of wise-cracking subtitles. Such as the one by the heroine's father, a dignified and venerable nobleman...
...Renee Adoree. It is the story of a rich man's son, a riveter and a bartender in the trenches, and the French girl that the first of these three married. It has humor, terror and bewildering beauty. It has one of the most exciting stories ever filmed, direction unexcelled, and truth and brilliancy of acting. The Big Parade is the one film since The Covered Wagon that men, women and children must not miss...
...Brooms. The theme of a man who takes over his father's business does not sound immensely novel. Of course he makes a success of it. A touch of satire on the very banality of the story was required. This the film factory omitted. Therefore the picture lacks entertainment...
Once she earned her butter and eggs in Christie Comedies with Colleen Moore in Los Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every...