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...married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small Middle West town. It showed how utterly impossible became her life; it told what she did about it. All this the picture does, and only half the heroine comes to life. Despite an exceptionally adroit performance by Irene Rich, the film is feeble...
...Night of Romance. Constance Talmadge does not perform very often. It is just and eminently fitting that when she does she selects a good sustaining menu of amusement. Such a menu is the present film. It is all light food, thin and made for laughter. Arriving in England is an American heiress to $10,000,000. Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights...
...genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
...exuberant Jeffrey Dwyer, taut poet, who loved one girl (Aileen Pringle) and married another (Eleanor Boardman). The producers also overlooked the fact that the one girl, who had later to cope with an idiot husband, furnished well over a third of the tale's power. Cheers for this film, if any, should be dedicated to Miss Boardman, the one able performer...
Classmates. Richard Barthelmess, a love story and West Point blend competently into one of the better routine entertainments. The military academy turned out in force, supplied background, students, atmosphere. For those who know West Point only in the Sunday supplement the film is an excellent and animated revue. Mr. Barthelmess plays well as the poor boy who comes to join the Army...