So Big. The cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest!"
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