Word: matte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breaking Point. An often impressive transcription of Mary Roberts Rinehart's book and play about amnesia, though it will leave the average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
Vatican vs. Spiritualism. The semi-official organ of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, launched an attack on spiritualism. The attack was provoked by the Piccolo which declared that Jesus was the greatest medium, and that it was his spirit, and not his body that walked upon the water (Matt...
...Straight Is the Way" furnishes the leading film at the Modern and Beacon Theatres this week. A well-balanced cast includes Matt Moore, George Parsons and Gladys Leslie, who aid in the characterization of a piece dependent on human nature and satirical effect for its situations. On the same bill is Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes", wherein she plays the role of an unconventional young heiress whose chief delight is calling telephone numbers at random and flirting with unknown male voices at the other end of the wire. This photoplay has been announced for a forthcoming production...