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REVIEW
Newspaper review of “NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY!”, written from the standpoint of a ‘first nighter’ for use in your newspaper the day following the first showing
Pretty Enid Bennett flits from the sublime to the ridiculous — at least in the titles of her photoplays — as easily as you or I flit from home to
office. For her latest Paramount picture now showing at the has
been called "Naughty, Naughty I” while the preceding offering was entitled "The Keys of the Righteous."
There is something in a name, too, in both cases, and "Naughty Naughty!" is quite as intriguing as the name indicates-although not the comic-opera sort of thing one might expect. The story which was written for Miss Bennett by C. Gardner Sullivan, opens with the return of pretty Roberta Miller to her small-town home in the Middle West.
Now there is nothing particularly remarkable about that — the remarkable thing is the effect the trip had had upon the heroine. She had left a quaint ginghamed youngster and had returned a smartly gowned, very sophisticated young person with three thoroughbred bulldogs. Lillyville — for so the town was called — gasped and bit its lips and murmured that it had known all along "Noo York weren't no place fer a young girl."
Roberta, much bored at the too-even tenor of her way in Lillyville, decided to reform the town to conform with her wishes rather than reform herself to conform to the town's wishes. And thereby hangs the tale. A certain young man, her sweetheart and the editor of the local news sheet, was one of the strictest of the strict in the community, and Roberta's efforts to remodel him are screamingly funny. Of course she succeeds and not only convinces the church people that they ought to sanction dances, but that they ought to provide them as a means of entertainment for their young people within their very gates.
Miss Bennett's own sister, Marjorie, makes her photo-dramatic debut in this picture, having appeared only in small "extra" parts formerly. As Prudence Sampson, sister of Roberta's sweetheart, the editor, she has created a charming role that will go far towards winning her a place on the honor role of filmdom beside her famous sister. Others on the splendidly chosen cast are Earl Rodney, Gloria Hope and Andrew Arbuckle.
As will be remembered, Miss Bennett has already appeared in "The Keys of the Righteous," also a Paramount picture, made under the personal supervision of Thomas H. Ince himself. Jerome Storm is the director of "Naughty, Naughty!" while the excellent photographic work was accomplished by Charles Stumar — all under Mr. Ince's supervision.
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