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...Played God (Warner). The crucial moment in this picture arrives when George Arliss, standing on the balcony of his Manhattan apartment, peers down into Central Park with spy glasses applied to his melancholy eyes which, in private life, are aided only by a monocle. Arliss is a celebrated pianist, indignant because deafness has made impractical the pursuit of his art. While cursing the deity and contemplating suicide, he has learned to read lips so adroitly that he can do it with field glasses. Looking into Central Park, he spies out his fiancee who is engaged in amorous colloquy...
...Adores, and Lon Chaney; "Fireman Save My Child," formerly a Beery-Hatton vehicle; "Smilin' Through," in which Norma Shearer will do the part once taken by Norma Talmadge; and "The Man Who Played God," a story about a musician who becomes deal and learns to read lips which George Arliss will star in again as he did almost ten years...
...Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this season in Lean Harvest...
University--"Alexander Hamilton," George Arliss tries to forget Disraeli with indifferent success...
...elder sister. Charles Butterworth is also connected with the circus in some undefined and probably undefinable capacity. When he shells peas, they bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept. 14). Butterworth wore a colonial costume which made him look like George Arliss slightly out of focus. In this picture, he wears a derby hat which is less becoming. Good shots: Butterworth voicing his absurd hunger for "a nice bowl of tapioca"; then falling into a small, shallow tank from a 110 ft. tower ; the proprietor going to bed drunk...