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...been amusing myself this winter by taking a correspondence course in Versification. After a time there came a lesson on tumbling alliterative verse. This is a very peculiar form and requires a subject rather out of the ordinary. It rolls along in voluminous strides, and I was at my wit's end for something to write about. It seems to me that it was in February while reading your magazine that I chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse...
Show Girl in Hollywood (First National). The adventures of Joseph Patrick McEvoy's laboriously vivacious heroine are continued in a sequel to Show Girl which is rather duller than its predecessor. Alice White's saucy face and impish dancing tide over long sequences of shoptalk garnished with heavy-handed wit. Best role: Blanche Sweet as a fading beauty of the screen who sings a song to the effect that "there is a tear for every smile in Hollywood...
...only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall to give a concert...
...most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture a vehicle for glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric, "the brides of long ago" parade as they have paraded in vaudeville for 15 years...
Paramount on Parade. This is one of those elaborate miscellanies with which the big production companies utilize the spare time of the stars on contract to them. It is an unusually good one-rapid, handsome, brightened with flashes of wit probably put in by Elsie Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William...