Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This film about acrobats is devised entirely for one episode which occupies a tenth of a second and takes place on a trapeze, half way to heaven. The key of the episode is a mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like...
...stage offering, more tuneful and delightful than usual, has as its bright spot two acrobat-comedians who do a neat bit jumping back and forth on a rubber net. Their act is carried out with minute precision and is quite different from the ordinary acrobatic stunt. Arthur Martel offers his weekly organ solo, this time in the form of a musical boxing bout between the husbands and wives present and the concert orchestra contributes a dashing rendering of the "Rhapsody in Black and White". All in all the program is a well-balanced entertainment sure to please some...
Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
...famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...
Before he was 12, Chevalier painted dolls in a factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...