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...Aint it the truth, Mr. Finkleburg? Yes. And so why not the ankles in a feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...Naughty Cinderella" there were many terse, epigrammatic phrases, and also much broad, slap-stick comedy. The CRIMSON reporter asked Miss Bordoni which got across best with the average audience. "The slap-stick, as you call it, everytime makes the bigger; impression. That is because there are always more people upstairs than down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE MOVIES MAKE ME SICK"--IRENE BORDONI | 3/6/1926 | See Source »

...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...

Author: By L.b.r.b. Jr., | Title: DRAMA THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER CINEMA | 2/4/1926 | See Source »

...slap in the face of smiling Prosperity could not pass unrequited. One of the world's largest real estate financiers, Simon William Straus, took notice, issued a statement which came quickly to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Straus v. Pessimists | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...present form "The Man on the Box" is too long: It could have been about two reels shorter without anybody going home in disappointment. Then there is the helicopter invention which seeks to restrain the comedy from becoming entirely a slap-stick affair and succeeds only in worrying the audience all the way through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

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