Word: lionell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind the whole performance of these two, ably supported by Lionel Banrymore, represents a high point in cinema art. For once, in "The Show," we have a hero who is not the ideal of the author of the Rover Boy series, a type taken over bodily by the "movies", Gilbert portrays a man who is a thorough sconndrel, and yet somehow likeable despite that fact, and he portrays the part with a very deft touch...
...which cognizance was taken of the aggressiveness, roughness on both sides which had marked the games. Billy Coutu, Boston player, was expelled from the league; fined $100. Hooley Smith, Ottawa, was suspended for a month; fined $100. Fines of $50 each were meted out to George Boucher, Ottawa captain, Lionel Hitchman, Jimmy Herberts, both of Boston. Other players, it was announced, were to be subject of further investigation...
...fratricide of Medicean times, as set forth lavishly in The Jest by Playwright Sem Benelli, were last week introduced in Cleveland. It was the play's first U. S. performance outside of Manhattan, inevitably provoking whispered comparisons by those in the audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique in the U. S. through its possession of a self-contained theatre plant with two stages-regular and studio...
...more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good law in our country." The jury, devout men all, took only 25 minutes to pronounce Mr. Sterry guilty. They had found no worth in his defense, led by Negro E. Lionel Cross, that his attack was upon "the old Jewish God" and that there is "no more blasphemy in talking against this God than there is against Jupiter or Baal." The judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail...
...Show (John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore). The plot is from Molnar's play Liliom. The Austrian hero lived on the largesse of women, stole their greatest treasures, beat them with sticks and fists. But they still loved him with ardor. His mistress (Gertrude Short) deserted him for the villain, buc decided she had made a bad second choice. Jealous the villain tries to kill the hero with a nasty gila monster but fails. Good cast, poor acting, fair entertainment...