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...falls asleep at his machine and dreams he is a great detective-the kind that only the cinema can produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...
...fuss and feathers thinly disguised as acting. This time Miss Murray has her histrionic hysterics in Mexico. The general blurred impression given by the picture is like this: Mae Murray-large mountains -Mae Murray-midnight love trysts -Mae Murray-a weird fandango by somebody described as a screen star -Mae Murray - cowboys having spasms-Mae Murray...
Cytherea. Not a very sincere or inspired attempt to capture the rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...
...Love Master. Strongheart is still one of the best screen actors, for this canine artist is as unconscious of self and of the camera as every hair on his back. In this story of the North he proves again his authentic appeal, winning a dog race at Banff on which his master's fortune-and the plot-hang. Strong-heart seems spurred on to greater efforts than usual, for this time he is performing before his consort and their family of five pups...
Players from Dallas journeyed to Manhattan, competed in the second annual Little Theatre (amateur) tournament, and were awarded the Belasco Cup-proof enough that the great open spaces still produce stirring drama, on stage as well as screen...