Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them

(United Artists—Samuel Goldwyn) was adapted by Sidney Howard from Zoe Akins' play. The Greeks Had a Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided...

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