Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Variety (Emil Jannings). Made in Germany is a trade mark which we learned, ten years ago, to shun. It is returning on the most American of all products, the movie, with irresistible authority. Germans have made several of the best motion pictures in history (The Last Laugh, Siegfried) and this latest sample is of unfailing excellence. It is not a new story, telling as it does of the pretty girl, the old trapeze artist, and the young trapeze artist who weaned away her love. It is a magnificent sample of the new German treatment, which depends chiefly on economy...
...Freshmen Shun Cinders...
...mongoose loathes the cobra, as the herring fears the shark, as the flapper dodges "lectures," so do editors shun the machinations of a species whose villainy is (to editors) as plain as the nose on your face and as hard to clap your eyes on. This species was for a long time called "press agent." His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates...
Beware the osterhout, and shun...
...least half of its laughs by having the charming young heroine say, "Damn;" and that is a faithful representation of domestic life in a small town by all means go and see it. If, on the other hand, you dislike seeing portrayed on the stage characters that you would shun in real life, characters that are unattractive, mediocre, cross and uninteresting, even in the heights of their emotion, stay away...