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...woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood's "Poverty Row'' with a series of shorts called The Hallroom Boys. Still pinching pennies, they followed that with Screen Snapshots, a particularly offensive scrapreel dealing with the home life of cinemactors. By 1922 they were turning out feature pictures...
...than as a play. Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is untruthful enough, jaunty enough, boastful enough, ignorant enough--"Stick-transit Gloria Monday"--objectionable enough and well-meaning enough to carry any play to distinction. Louis John Bartels makes the most of his opportunities. You remember Percy and Ferdy, the Hallroom Boys. Well, the show-off is both of them and all the rest of their ilk rolled into...
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