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...saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing, manages to carry a comedy role by sheer weight. The rest of the company are adequate. The settings and costumes are smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...sending an erring wife back to her struggling husband, and of reproving characters whenever they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches. It is a case of the drooling passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...with the waterfall scenes in any Universal picture. The scenes of the untamable equine lord of the plains plunging to rescue from the flood the man who saved him from the fire have been cleverly faked almost to the point of being Art. The horse who plays the leading role is so real that he makes the persons in the human story look like cinema actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Woman to Woman. Betty Compson does better work with the role of a little Montmartre dancer than is usually the case, though the only truly notable feature of the triangular story is the lack of a good, thoroughgoing villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 7, 1924 | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF-A gorgeous satire of the eternal boob, casting himself for his favorite role of the leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

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