Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine...
...Leon Trotsky: "No one is neutral about him. Trotsky is either loved or despised." Hero of the army. His aides are as smart as any in the French War Office. Un-Russian passion for orderliness. A "phrase-maker," orator. Regarded by his "comrades" as a mixed blessing...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES-A skilful dramatization of Harry Leon Wilson's story of the movie-struck youth who quite unintentionally becomes a great comedian, with a corresponding loss of illusions...
...Council of the League attends to its business,--and vitally important business most of it is,--with remarkable despatch and precision. The representatives of the eleven member-nations which compose it include such impressive figures as Lord Balfour, ex-Premier Leon Bourgeois of France, Premier Branding of Sweden, and M. Paul Hymans, former Foreign Minister of Belgium. The Assembly, and the six Commissions into which it divided itself for the efficient conduct of its business, went through the enormous and varied list of topics on its 1922 agenda,--coming to a positive constructive decision in the great majority of cases...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?A skilful dramatization of Harry Leon Wilson's story of the movie-struck youth who quite unintentionally becomes a great comedian, with a corresponding loss of illusions...