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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero for a Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in Russia. This funny & heroic feat enables the taxicab driver to marry the millionaire's daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This is perhaps because she was born in Atlanta and has herself strayed Northward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Impudence | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Nowadays "racket" plays are pasted up by newspaper folk from clippings of their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...always been a synonym for that improper motion of the body, the shimmy, is to be seen whirling about in the innocuous curves of the devil dance. While she is not dancing, she makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. Her well-shaped shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...supply a column of friendly counsel to cor respondents who sign themselves "Blue-eyes" or "Blonde" or "Brokenhearted." The most famed proprietor of such a column is one Beatrice Fair fax, who at her littered desk, sur rounded by helpmates, appears by proxy in this film. The plot, supposed ly non-fictitious, details the amorous bewilderments of those whose wails and whines serve Miss Fairfax as a means of support. There is the gay young girl who scorns the boy her older sister loves, preferring to play around with streetsheiks. There are the boy friends, some good, some less good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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