The New York herald., 1922-02-27
iss TaLmadge in
Film Filled With
Funny Situations
Polly of the Follies,' Hilari-
Gus Photoplay, Keeps the
Spectators Laughing.

STRAND--Miss Constance Talmadge IN
"Poily of the Follies." First National
production. by John Emerson and
Anita Loos.
Miss Constance Talmadge must have
had "reminiscences aroused by her latest
omance before the camera, for 1t prac-
tically begins with an elopement to Con-
iecticut- Miss Talmadge. who scampered
away and was married herself at Green
yich, must have suspected something
when the town in which she appears as
me drug store drudge was named Bowl
Ing Green for the picture.
But unlike some runaway matches,
his does not turn out unsatisfactory
not for Miss Talmadge. for she isn't the
girl concerned in It. The miss figuring
II 1t. a bored society debutante, from
New York. is prevented from marrying
the wealthy young hero and at the last
moment cheerfully resigns him to Polly
IN exchange for the latters position
with the "Follies."
Previous to that elimination the audi
cnce have accompanied Polly on a most
Joyous pilgrimage to fame-and pair
Of babies. the evident consolation for
losing it. For originality. quantity hui
lnorous situations with never a tagging
noment and pungent satire. these ex-
perts in comedy have never surpassed
this product-indeed, any producer
would be happy to turn out anything
SO turbulently funny. Evidence that it
; about the most hilarious photoplay of
ne season was furnished yesterday by
audiences that laughed until they seemed
On the verge of toothache.
In Pollys impromptu motion pic
IRE" performance for the kids who
ave been deprived of their photoplay
aouse by blue law community is a
owlingly ludicrous travesty on the
Inns that should make many a direc-
Or swear to lead a better life. Be
des some good natured fun over an
.mateur tableau there is just about the
grandest skit on Caesar and Cleopatra
nat ever made history look alive.
Ordinarily satire Is as hard to put
'ver on the screen or elsewhere as an
;ctress who isn't pretty, despite the
press agents. But here it has been done
50 shrewdly that even the ushers laugh.
oreover. the producers have presented
heir moral, that there's many a square
reg In round hole, so adroitly one only
realizes with a start, Haven't I heard
nat before?"
Probably Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., who
$ represented in the picture by young
AN bearing a close resemblance to
i'm, would enjoy a good chuckle at the
ase with which a little country girl
supposed to land job in the Fol
les" simply by initiating Frisco and
nohing cigar without being carried
eut. Possibly, IN view of the success
T PoIly's sly ruse of getting past the
age doorman as a scrubwoman, future
1retty aspirants for the "Follies" will
ppear with buckets on their arms.
Miss Talmadge swims gayly throu9 h
Tie picture, ana while she has mo-
cents of clairvoyant seriousness md
'rrnmendably works away from her
Naby vamp" roles still she haA her
,ggling occasions-glory, how she wig
Sias Kenneth Harlan and the rest of
,e cast are excellent. and Miss Anita
oos herself got so much into the sirit
at she plays a little girl so realistically
ou'd think lollipops would melt in her
outh.