Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...
...sank. St. Peter's lofty contours slowly cast shadows over the throng. When the seminarians had all left the church there were silver trumpetings from the portico. Over the singing and stir of thousands, boomed the bells of Rome, echoing from the Seven Hills. A confusion of shouting arose: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" Down the steps tramped the Swiss Guards with glittering breastplates and halberds, down strolled a vivid mass of ecclesiasts. Two long rows of Cardinals followed, dressed in scarlet, heads bent, hands clasped in prayer...
...first act of Broadway Nights a group of tinted chorines dance before a mammoth synthetic rosebush. In the second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
...love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures which tried hard, however ineptly, to make...
Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...