Xenophon Socrates O'Brien cannot understand the modern dance. He censures the girls for their modern ways and tells them that the ancient Greeks were more graceful and entertaining.

Hal Roach’s one-reel cocktail Greek Meets Greek sloshes together Bacchic drapery and gin-soaked syncopation until the punchbowl overflows onto the parquetry of 1922 propriety. Clocking in at a brisk dozen minutes, the film nevertheless distills an era’s vertigo: the moment when Victorian bustles were being torched to ...

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Nicholas T. Barrows

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" Hal Roach’s one-reel cocktail Greek Meets Greek sloshes together Bacchic drapery and gin-soaked syncopation until the punchbowl overflows onto the parquetry of 1922 propriety. Clocking in at a brisk dozen minutes, the film nevertheless distills an era’s vertigo: the moment when Victorian bustles were being torched to feed the boiler of modernity, and every Charleston kick felt like a heresy against the Parthenon. Shot in the honeyed light of Roach’s nascent lot, the short is a pocket revolt ag..."

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