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Excuse Me. Polite farce is seldom exploited favorably on the screen. It is so much easier to be funny, flinging pies. Excuse Me disturbs the tradition and manages to amuse considerably. The plot sets down in an express train a couple who have not had time to get married because their honeymoon boat leaves so soon for Honolulu. Later, arrived an airplane to speed up the [situation. Rupert Hughes was responsible for the plot; Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel were the principal performers. Miss Shearer demonstrates that she can omit emotion and still impress the watcher as a leader...
...camera lens. For it is the words that come out of a man's mouth that define him, more exactly than all his grimaces and gestures. Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was a character study if ever one was written. The book had no further plot nor purpose. It told of a lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small Middle West town. It showed how utterly impossible became her life; it told what she did about it. All this the picture does, and only half the heroine comes to life...
Actually, Mr. Coburn is anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...piece is a departure from the Jolson custom in that it has a plot. The comedian portrays the character of a darkey jockey who rides a colt named Big Boy and wins the last-act race. This framework displays no sensational originality. It is shrewdly made to carry the star's efforts, always feeding them and taking little for itself. The company is large and generally competent. Yet, it is upon the magnificent vitality, the bright and sometimes bawdy wit, the shift to a swift flash of pathos, the surpassing magnetism of Mr. Jolson that the show depends...
...June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said it was a plot to kill Mr. Toupin. The Republicans said that their lives were not safe...