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Another good chorus girl, hell-bent for Society. It is a gay, lively; and unimportant play, combining some features of "Easy Virtue" and the "Vanities...
...comment is bold and unrelieved. In discussing broadly the question of American worship of size and narrowly the growth of our large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
...Countess" which compensate for lack of fresh material. In the first place there is the Countess herself, Madame de Lamouderie, who bears the distinction of being the most despicable character in the story and also the most interesting. In contrast to the other people, all of whom are hell bent for self sacrifice, she is delightful--which is probably what Mrs. de Selincourt intended her to be, thus allowing gentility to defeat villainy...
...snow is coming so what the hell...
Sensation Seekers (Billie Dove). This plot is from Ernest Pascal's Egypt. Billie Dove as Egypt Hagen, society type girl, smokes, drinks and goes bad with six times the diligence of any possible society girl, determined to go to hell just as fast as she can get there. Reverend Norman Lodge (Raymond Bloomer) sidetracks her into his parish house. Preacher Lodge is convincing and that is all which can be said for the picture...