Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marianne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the most lamentable consequences of the singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot...
...Most Immoral Lady (First National). The duplicity of wives who lure rich men into compromising situations so that their husbands can collect money from them has long been familiar to theatre audiences. It is less common in the cinema. The hints that before long Leatrice Joy will fall in love with one of her dupes even keep her from being as boring as her stolid acting usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed...
With his trunks unpacked, one of the first official acts of Prime Minister Scullin was to lead his new Cabinet one by one before the omnivorous eye and ear of the talking cinema. Mindful of British and U. S. audiences he said...
...Soldier on the day the engagement was officially proclaimed last week. It was 9:30 in the morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...