Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue at all. Best shot: showing the use that can be made of a pass...
...Park--Broadway (Tryon). 9.30 to 10.30 o'clock...
...Park--Broadway. 9.30 to 10.30 o'clock...
After playing around last season with talking pictures and other would-be attractions the Shuberts have brought out a Boston edition of the Broadway success, "Follow Thru", and the Majestic is playing to a good house once more. This newest offering will perhaps remind some of one of the last real hits to play the same stand, "Good News". From that you can take it that "Follow Thru" is better-than-average entertainment...
Jealousy (Paramount). Louis Verneuil's play was much praised on Broadway last season for technical cleverness -its only characters were the ex-mistress of a boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable...