Manhandled

Gloria Swanson, 1924, Paramount, directed by Allan Dwan: a department-store clerk who wants a better life and gets a worse one in New York society. From a magazine story. Swanson, already a DeMille goddess, here doing comedy — the subway, the party, the manhandling of the title. It is a Jazz Age picture about a girl who is handled by everyone except herself, and Dwan keeps it moving like a woman late for a train.