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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...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...
...grass, buckskin or the negroid type of evening gown. She gets up at noon and eats two meals a day with lemons between meals for the sake of her throat. She was good in Tiger Rose, Lulu Belle, The Sun-Daughter, Kiki, The Harem, and Mima. This is her first picture...
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...
Fall of Briand. Not merely big but great is Aristide Briand, first Frenchman to bury the War, shaggy-headed, sleepy-eyed but profoundly sagacious builder of friendship and conciliation between France and Germany. As he faced the Chamber of Deputies, just reconvened last week after a three-month vacation, M. Briand knew well enough that his eleventh Cabinet was tottering...