If portraying emotional situations that occur again and again in human life is 'hokum' let's have more of it.'Hokum' is 'hokum' only when the handling fails to strike direct and definitely into the heart of the audience which beholds it.
[on Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand (1922)] Valentino is one of the most sensitive, responsive actors with whom it has ever been my good fortune to work. He has a remarkable instinct for acting which makes his characterization of Gallardo, the bull fighter, stand out as the best work he has ever done.