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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hodge blunders through his part, in a manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
Puppy Love. Anne Nichols, who produced Abie's Irish Rose, has a new one. She did not write it, but from the looks of things she had a lot to do with the rewriting. The farce has all the old tricks you can think of and here and there a new one. It is so synthetic, so obviously manufactured for the easy laugh, that the testy old critics did not like it. Neither did they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl...
Applications received after tomorrow will be filed in order of their receipt, after all other requests for tickets have been met. The batch of applications which are made on time will be looked after by lot in the regular manner...
...Manhattan at No. 1 Wall St., at the corner of Broadway and opposite Trinity Episcopal Church, is the "costliest real estate lot in the world." The plot, fronting 29.10 ft. on Broadway and 39.10 ft. on Wall St. and carrying the 18-story Chimney Building, was sold last week for a figure unnamed. Twenty-one years ago the same property sold for $576 a square foot-or $25,000,000 an acre...
...next topic of discussion was the stage or screen career of a champion. "There is a lot of superfluous comment," he declared, "about athletes acting before footlights or camera, and it is wholly unjustified. A man's abilities are his own and his reputation is his own. So when a man, after receiving some publicity in athletics, chooses the stage or the screen for his career, he should be allowed to carry it out without criticism for he must make a living. In other professions besides acting, these accusations are not made. When made, they are the fault of this...