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...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
Souls for Sables. The heart sinks at such a title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
...Charm. A drug clerk in a Southern village is desolated because his beloved is going to New York "to work and live". What can he do to keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...
...this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth Dana. Mildred Mac-Leod, as a dreamy girl troubled by an explosion of cloudy and fervent aspiration, plays her part with...
...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...