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...Green Goddess. George Bernard Shaw is reported"to have told William Archer (dean of the London critics and author of this melodrama), that he considered this the best motion picture plot he had ever heard. His opinion discloses the fallibility of genius. Despite extraordinarily able performance, beauty and detailed lavishness of settings, and masses of money the picture lodges below the popular pinnacles now occupied by The Covered Wagon and Little Old New York...
...guise of a servant?bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
...producer: " Generalizing about modern musical comedy, I said: ' We are getting back to the plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, set to present-day words and music. ... No more the bawling, syncopated soubrette, whose only acquisition was a reputation in the divorce courts and a vulgar method of kicking. The plot ... is the thing...
...readily perceive that such an imponderable plot must be fashioned mainly of talk. Since the talk is consistently bright and often brilliant the lack of incident is not a serious setback...
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Gloria Swanson had something in the matter of plot to work upon when she plunged into this picture. Accordingly she emerged with a good performance to her credit...