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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MERTON OF THE MOVIES ? Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...MERTON OF THE MOVIES ? From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...MERTON OF THE MOVIES?From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Super-films and their makers satirized from the inside, with Glenn Hunter doing the best work of his career as the naively pathetic hero who learned " screen-art" by correspondence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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