Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright. Obvious, intermediate lines try without success to sketch Iscariot as a better man, really, than Bible History makes him. He who is hard of hearing would enjoy the personable cast, the good settings by Jo Mielziner, but the hard of hearing go to the cinema...
...Woman of Affairs is Iris March, Michael Aden's "white, so white" lady, now called Diana Merrick to fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows...
...mere pittance of 40 guineas ($200) a week, the Crown will rent sumptuous Craigwell House, in Aldwick Village near Bognor-on-Sea. A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema-theatre, and hot & cold running salt & fresh water will be at His Majesty's disposal. Ap propriately enough, the owner is Sir Arthur Du Cros, President of Dunlop, Ltd., famed tyre makers, vaunters of the slogan: "As British As The Flag!" Dyspeptic persons addicted to taking Beecham's Pills espe cially rejoiced, last week, for Sir Arthur is also a director of "Beecham...
Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
...Lady of Chance. Cinema racketeers and crooks, sensitive to a waning interest in their mode of life, have shown in recent films a happy tendency to satirize themselves. Love is all they take seriously now, and they may even change their attitude about that for the better. Norma Shearer, at least, outwitting Lowell Sherman, a rival racketeer, or finding out that the fellow she wants to gyp is not as rich as she hoped, provides an entertaining hour...