Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan, they laid the cornerstone of a new cinema-film exchange, a place where the commercial envoys of millions of people will go to buy or rent for them the latest articles in synthetic culture. At such ceremonies, important people gather-"producers" worth scads of money, "artists" whose faces are fabulous fortunes when properly painted, "directors" who have popular psychology minced up and pigeonholed to the last sentimental convulsion over a glycerine tear, "publicity directors" who have utterly exhausted all superlatives in describing the achievements of the rest...
Fine Clothes. Ferenc Molnar wrote the play from which this film was taken. It was here called Fashions for Men and later, when the public began to fall away, Passions for Men. It is the story of a humble shop clerk who lost his wife and his money, and finally got what he wanted. It makes a pretty good picture, particularly since it is played by Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens and Raymond Griffith...
...Vanishing American. Another western film that adds to U. S. history as did The Covered Wagon, and gives in the process excellent entertainment as did that memorable film, has appeared on the subject of the American Indian. It would be wildly impolitic to prophesy that The Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...
...lack of confidence keeps them from the full investigations asserting faultless logical conclusions which would consummate all the desired changes. Yet this power over the malleable future may be an unsupportable presumption, a possibility which he discounts with disdain. His thesis is that with patience and care the film that now obscures the eyesight of intelligence can be cleared away. "When People in reasoning, they do so in obvious ways by violating obvious rules," he says. But it would seem that if the errors were obvious, even an intelligence with misgivings could have perceived and avoided them...
...film for the feature picture consists of several thousands feet of pictures taken during the past summer under the direction of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. By special arrangement with Edward B. Moss, Secretary of this association, the pictures have been secured for tonight...