A GIRL IN EVERY PORT
Starring Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong and Louise Brooks
SCREENLAND
May, 1928
The movies are getting good and tough. I'm all for it,
myself. I like the rough-and-ready atmosphere of such a picture
as "A Girl in Every Port." My boy friend does, too.
Tip to girls: if you want to be The Girl in your particular port,
don't turn up your nose at the pictures of the "What Price
Glory?" school, unless you want to pay your own way to the
movies. You may prefer to see the smiling face of your pet actor
to the scowling countenance of Victor McLaglen, but don't you
let on. And when you see one girl after another parade on the
screen, smile, darn you, smile! It seems that no longer must
movie men be beautiful. McLaglen and Robert Armstrong, his team
mate, will certainly never win any prizes for pulchritude, but
the boys are there with the wallop just the same. They're a great
combination, artists at fisticuffs or kisses, getting away with
murder and everything but matrimony in every port. Don't pity
the poor sailors any more; don't waste your pity. Although there
are gobs of girls in this sailor's paradise, there is not a single
Heroine, or even a married one. Louise Brooks, Leila Hyams, and
many, many more are present to liven things up; but not even Louise
makes more than a dent in the big, big heart of the two sailor-boys.
They're soon off on another cruise, and there's a girl
in every port.
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