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...fact it is hardly possible that Pola Negri of "The Woman on Trial" would not whet the jaded appetite of the most sophisticated of the devotees of the silver screen. And jaded indeed does the appetite of the average spectator at the average motion picture become; picture succeeds picture, plot follows plot with an abysmal shallowness of invention, and a dispiriting similarity of spirit. It almost seems as if the chief advance of the art were in the decoration of the theatre, rather than the quality of the picture...
...Woman on Trial" differs very little in plot and invention from innumerable other pictures the reviewer could enumerate if he had a memory for names. Enough, that it plays in Paris with scenes from the Place de la Concorde and the Latin Quarter. It seems unnecessary to examine the plot further. In spirit, to use that nebulous word, it differs, however, from the other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives...
...Five O'Clock Girl. A large-sized musical comedy descended upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant...
...dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky, a son of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, nephew and namesake of the publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, outstanding member of an outstanding college...
...Miss Hampton, the plot and the jokes are not really important. The things that matter are the music by Sigmund Romberg,† and the ensemble singing. These factors measure up to the most rigorous standard of recent large scale, light opera in the Shubert manner. Contented patrons of The Student Prince and things like that may dedicate an evening to My Princess...