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(T The up\eep is what breads you.
C[ Joslyn (]oan Craw ford) has several millionaires on her trail, not to mention an e-xhibition dancer.
TAXI Dancer
(\Fare? Fair
^ ver hear of a Taxi Dancer? Me, too — I mean either. Joan Crawford, however, explains to everybody's satisfaction in her new picture. Taxi dancers are just like taxis — that is, you grab 'em and take 'em — but the fare is not so much. It's the up-keep. In fact, for a dance-hall girl who dances with all and sundry for the trifling sum of ten cents, Joslyn — the girl played by Joan — does pretty well. She has several millionaires on her trail, not to mention an exhibition dancer— Douglas Gilmore — and a card sharp, Owen
Moore. (Let's not mention Mr. Gilmore.) Joslyn is just one of these girls who doesn't know what she wants; it takes a murder to make up her mind. "The Taxi Dancer" is a motion picture that doesn't move fast enough. It might have been the making of Miss Crawford as a popular star. Here she is, one of the few real dancing girls on the screen, all ready to strut her stuff. But apparently the director, as well as the plot, didn't understand her. Maybe it isn't Joan's fault that she somehow fails to ring up a big fare.
The \ids can see the picture through twice hy pleading that it's historical.
GENERAL
(^General Gaiety
\l "J7*-ou'll find nothing to complain of in Buster yY Keaton's "General" behavior. He goes about making fun in his own quiet, quaint way. He is also cute. I don't care what you say — downright cute. But never at the sacrifice of dignity. Mr. Keaton does not stoop for a boisterous laugh-— perhaps he has learned in years of slap-stick experience that he who stoops is kicked. "The General" is mild comedy but I wouldn't have missed it. It may not be satire, but it
comes pretty close at times. 'The General" is an engine, with Buster at the throttle. It gets all mixed up in the Civil War and almost wins the fray for the Confederates. You get the general impression that if Gen. Lee had consulted with Buster, that scene at Appomatox would never have been enacted.
Assisted by Marion Mack — a southern belle in hoopskirts who plays maid of all work around the engine — Buster outwits the Union forces. The kids can get away
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