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Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell will make a musicomedy containing the first music George ("Rhapsody in Blue") Gershwin has written for the cinema. . . . With 16 blonde, 5 redheaded actresses under contract, Fox has only three brunettes, none of them important: Maureen O'Sullivan, Fifi Dorsay and Sally Eilers. Newsworthy were these precipitations of the conference season that has been raging for the past three weeks in the film industry. Salesmen were exhorted; company officials read numberless addresses carefully prepared by their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were...
Victor McLaglen's latest contribution to the all-talkie, all-sexy form of dramatic art is "On the Level", now showing at the B. F. Keith's Memorial Theatre. The virility of Herr McLaglen is very adequately balanced by the Misses Fifi Dorsay and Lilyan Tashman. Between these three, the iron workers Union, and Palisades Park, the director has managed to turn out a fairly amusing picture...
...Raoul Walsh is said to have thought up the story while he was riding in an airplane. Typical gags: "You must have a sweetport in every heart"; "coal miners" used instead of "gold diggers"; Swedish seamen interrupting Victor McLaglen as he pours out his heart in passionate metaphors to Fifi Dorsay...
Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...
Less superlatively staged, the play might have seemed no more than sound and furies signifying nothing. But James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...