Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the production, "Shanghai Jesters" it, too, is very typical of the Met. Dancing, singing, attempts at humor are all present. And as usual there is one extremely good vaudeville act. This time it is a barrel juggling stunt which would be better if it were alloted more time and space...
...dozen policemen rushed from offices in the Prefecture to collar Murderer Philipponet and clap him into a cell he screamed: "Monsieur Bayle committed an act of bad faith! My document was genuine! What I have done was worth the death of a father of five children...
Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing, who is also attending the prison congress here, said in an interview today that he is opposed to capital punishment because it does not act as a deterrent but topds rather to make heroes of criminals...
...Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly...
...attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts...