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Bebe Daniels has many rollicking moments in "The Palm Beach Girl." She plays an Ioway girl in Florida
THE CELLULOID
CRITIC
A FITTING companion picture to "The Last Laugh" in point of masterly direction, masterly acting and the compelling power of its story, is "Variety." As with the other, it comes straight from the UFA workshop — a finished piece of cinematic art. It tells a sordid triangle that shatters the lives of its tragic figures. These three — a dominating, brutish showman, his mistress and the philanderer, who is taken into the confidence of the others — touch the dregs of lif Yet so completely fascinating,, so absorbing and embracing its eventful situations that the characters seem to step right out frame and confront you with their personalities.
Truly Lifelike
I have never seen a picture which carried a more lifelike touch. I have never seen a picture which brought forth so much titanic force in the logical sequence of its scenes. There have been triangle dramas before, but somehow they have an artificial ring compared with "Variety."
The rough-and-ready showman is content in his wagon home — content with his dowdy wife and their sprawling babe until a sensuous woman enters and seeks shelter. With soft, limpid eyes and rounded curves of figure she conquers him.
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Milton Sills has an interesting picture in "Puppets." Here we find him treating one of his dolls to a flow of melody
Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti have many dramatic and emotional moments in that superb picture, "Variety
He would become the aerialist again — the strong anchor man who catches the lighter acrobat in his flights from the trapeze. And so he runs away with the girl. He is happy, but he is ignorant of the girl's passion for men. And she invites the more attractive member of the troupe with the sex light of her eyes.
Power and Suspense
I give this brief outline of the plot to indicate the motivation.
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