Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Abie's Irish Rose came back to Broadway as a film. It was harmlessly funny. In fact, it was as well done as it possibly could be. Miss Nichols had aided Victor Fleming (famed director of The Way of All Flesh) in putting it together. Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy (father of Abie) performed with dignity and feeling. The plot was slightly changed: Abie Levy (Charles Rogers) and Rosie Murphy (Nancy Carroll) get married secretly soon after the World War. Their parents' consent is not obtained until twins are born...
...film is also well adapted to the revue. One is thankful that he can turn to the refreshing scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration...
...history works on the same general principle as the educational film It teaches history almost entirely by illustration. Thus the student merely follows the sequence of pictures through the book, reading, if he cares to, the written marginal notes, and receives a graphic and vivid impression of the appearances and happenings of earlier times. All of them based on authenticated sources, the pictures have an unquestioned value in giving a general idea of by-gone times...
...numerous gyrations. However, to give Gene credit, he does surround himself with a some-what more entertaining group than usual to celebrate his "Hall and Farewell" performances. Now that he is leaving Boston, for a while at least, the reviewers will have to give more attention to the feature film at the Babylonish picture palace...
Next (in 1889) came the cellulose film that has made amateur photography a joy and made possible the cinema, one of the 10 largest U. S. industries...