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...habitual sheik story with the sexes switched. A desert beauty of Spanish ancestry suddenly loves a gay officer of the Foreign Legion and adopts the movie practice of her male prototypes, while the young Frenchman, thus captive in a Bedouin palace acts out the at-first-morose screen lady...
...Silvers, his partner, killed himself. When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll. A mocking shadow ran after him for the next few years, whispering an insult in his ear every time the crowds at Ringling's sat silent when he twisted an eyebrow at them. By 1920, he used to pick up dollars by coming in at business men's dinners and trying to make the solemn faces crack...
...found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces of the silver screen where the spectator may be a vicarious hero just as in the Stadium, and with as little trouble...
...ingredients of good drama, well served, constitutes the piece de resistance at present on the Metropolitan menu. In 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...
Bears. The U. S. Senate nearly lost its entire farmer-labor bloc lately. So the country learned when Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, lone farmer-laborite showed his friends some cinema films last week, taken by him on his vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead...