Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 30, 1923

Lawful Larceny. As indicated by the title there is a deal of stealing to thicken the plot. Vigorous vampires wriggle from man to man extracting signed checks. Somebody cracks a safe. Then the injured wife sets things right by turning crook and stealing everything back.

There is a notable scene in The Rendezvous (expensive New York cafe) where Gilda Gray "she shakes and she jiggles ev'ry mussil of her body" for 25c., one quarter, the twentieth part of what it costs to see her do the same thing in the Ziegfeld Follies.

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