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...father and stepmother in Fall River two generations ago, has produced a body of New England legend and at least one folk ballad. It has taken four playwrights to stage the tale, and what they have done is not important. What is important is the amazing transfiguration of Lillian Gish as an actress...
...White Sister (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a talkie production of the picture which with Lillian Gish and Ronald Cowman in the important parts was vastly successful in 1923. Now-partly because Helen Hayes has the Gish role, partly because the action has been localized at the Italian front in the War-it gives the impression of being a minor-league Farewell to Arms. Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) is the daughter of an elderly Prince (Lewis Stone) who has made arrangements for her to marry a dull young man. Instead of complying, she hobnobs with a young aviator named Giovanni (Clark...
...lias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish, who appeared last week in Manhattan in the Dumas classic...
...decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road...
Central City's opera house was opened in 1878 when the town was a roaring mining centre. It soon became known as the finest theatre west of the Mississippi. Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Fanny Ward, Rose Coghlan played there. So did Actress Gish, as a child. When Central City's boom days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin...