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Crude slapstick has taken over stage and screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...
Engaged. Buster Keaton, stone-faced funnyman, 43; and Dancer Eleanor Ruth Morris, 21; in Los Angeles. Said Keaton, already twice divorced: "I feel like smiling, but the studio won't allow it-not in public, anyway...
Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective...
...present series were chosen to "exemplify the wide scope and uniqueness of art form that the film achieved" in the period from 1922 to 1928. Other films include two well-known early talking pictures and examples of the animated cartoon and the documentary film: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedies are on the first program, scheduled for November...
...Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting...