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STREET ANGEL (Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell), Two LOVERS (Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman), GLORIOUS BETSY (Dolores Costello and Conrad Nagel...
...Glorious Betsy. Costumes are all right. So is the Vitaphone when it does not lisp. But the little locks on the nape of the neck of Dolores Costello are the hearts of the lettuce of this film, wherein Betsy, belle of Baltimore, wins Jerome, young brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, away from all the princesses of Europe...
...scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration, however, is successful and the film deserves to be shown in the same theatre at which Paul Whiteman...
...called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
...dying. . . . Quick! Bring the flag of Italy! . . . Let me be wrapped within its glorious folds...