Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were deftly manipulated amid fluffy excitement. A year ago, George C. Tyler revived it on a Manhattan stage with 83-year-old Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly. Norma Shearer,* though not the ideal Actress Rose Trelawny who sneezed lovingly in the Gower drawing room, has acquired a little of the oldtime sauce. O. P. Heggie did well as Grandfather Gower...
...City Without Jews.f At first, the board of censors in Manhattan said: "No." Then, a few days later, they said: "Let it run." It really did not make any difference, for the film is harmless, the public refused to become excited, there were no race riots. The story is laid in the year 1976 in the city of Vientra, where a law is passed ousting all the Jews. Troubles beset Vientra. Then the Jews are called back...
...women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working on a film version of The Last of Mrs. Ckeyney...
Sally of the Scandals. The genuine Scandals of George White opened on a Manhattan stage last week (see p. 30). By a preconceived coincidence, a scandalously peppermint-coated film also opened. Its idea is that earnest little girls are given a break in the big & naughty Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
...legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...