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...Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
...Girl. When they finished this picture at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios, it was terrible. A visiting newspaperman from Manhattan (one Laurence Stallings) took a look, made a suggestion. That suggestion made The Way of a Girl one of the best cinema satires ever produced. It was a melodrama at first. They cut it into about 100 pieces, inserted an author at work, his characters in conference around his typewriter, their decisions, bloody subtitles. You'll have to laugh, particularly when you think that it might have appeared before you as melodrama unadorned...
...reason for the shut-down was stated to be the abnormal present costs of production, due to excessive salaries paid to " film stars" and directors. According to Marcus Loew, head of Metro Pictures Corporation and of the Loew Theatre Circuit, this step is only a beginning of a general deflation of the cinema business; he added: " The cost of making pictures has got away from...