The biggest role of her career was given to Leatrice Joy by Cecil B. DeMille in his new Paramount picture, “Manslaughter.” It is a story of the excesses of a wealthy society girl which lead her to jail to pay the penalty fer killing a motorcycle policeman. Miss Joy is here shown in one of the gay parties that form a part of the play. Mr. DeMille is said to have used “Manslaughter” as a scathing arraignment of the speedy life of our “wild young people,” certain scenes likening our modem life to that of Rome before the downfall.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17010, 7 April 1923, Page 7 (Supplement)
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99The biggest role of her career was given to Leatrice Joy by Cecil B. De-Mille in his new Paramount picture, “Manslaughter.” It is a story of the excesses of a wealthy society girl which lead her to jail to pay the penalty fer killing a motorcycle policeman. Miss Joy is here shown in one of the gay parties that form a part of the play. Mr. DeMille is said to have used “Manslaughter” as a scathing arraignment of the speedy life of our “wild young people,” certain scenes likening our modem life to that of Rome before the downfall. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17010, 7 April 1923, Page 7 (Supplement)
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