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...would still be hard to believe that all of the production would be absolutely tip-top. The fallacy, by which the effete critics are snared, is the idea that the cinema is solely a medium of art. Granted, it is that, but like a piano or a jew's harp, it is a great deal more, it is a medium of amusement. Amusement, as in the case of a poker game, often falls very, very, far short of art, and yet is, as amusement, very, very, good pastime for the reading period. As for the art the cinema turns...
Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
...Today" colyum to describing the animals in Mr. Hearst's private zoo. Then he went on: "The collection of human beings here is also interesting. Charlie Chaplin flew up yesterday. One of the Marx Brothers, named Harpo, has just arrived, in a hired plane. He brought his harp and played on the way up. Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page and married Helen Hayes, two remarkable accomplishments for one so young, flew up with Marx and warned him against harp playing, which is a celestial monopoly at a certain height above ground...
...constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking. So they harp on the title of the show, "Rain", and employ it in the manner of a theme song. To think of the amount of worth-while atmosphere created in the play by keeping the 6000 horsepower rain-making machines going at top speed all the time, is essentially, to laugh...
...Chicago, Harpo Marx bought an old harp. He tuned and played it to suit himself. The harp became so dilapidated that, when his train was wrecked at Mobile, Harpo claimed and received $250 on it although it had been unhurt. With the money, he purchased a new harp. He was amazed when a music store offered him $250 for his old harp, amazed further when the music store sold it for $750, as an antique...