“Malcolm St. Clair, our own native-born Lubitsch, follows up the thoroughly American Are Parents People? with an even more Lubitschian subject, based on the play ‘The Tattooed Countess.' Pola Negri plays a European ‘woman with a past' whose impact on a small American town - from smoking in public to even more startling moral transgressions - causes a major upheaval. Interesting both as a Pola Negri vehicle, and as a commentary on the increasingly dominant role that women were playing in movies of the '20s."