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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson. You can see that the audiences make no demand for any super-ingenuity in the plotting of the musical interludes...
...popular screen musical comedy called "Sunny Side Up," which thanks to the engaging presence of Miss Jane Gaynor and several effective DeSylva-Brown-Henderson tunnes is Among the current Broadway successes introduces as many withouit recourse to backstage or college What pases for its plot includes episoedes at a block party in New York's East Side and a charity show at Southampton and the principals and choruses can indulge themselves in song and dance for all they are worth at both affairs...
...actors and actresses that are not musically inclined, and having doubles do the work for them. In "The Trespasser", now at the Central Square, Gloria Swanson sings, but instead of making it appear that she is playing her own accompaniment the director was perfectly frank about it and had Miss Swanson sit down at a player piano and let this instrument do the work of the double...
...that is not the only interesting bit about "The Trespasser". It is an excellent movie, one in which Miss Swanson, using her emotional powers to the fullest extent, gives an excellent portrayal of the life of a poor stenographer mixed up in the affairs of wealthy men. The show is hardly one for the "tired business man"; it is one that demands your attention throughout, and the plot of it is so intricate, but also well worked out, that it keeps the audience in constant suspense as to how the love affairs of Marion Donnell will finally turn...
...posters advertising the show Miss Swanson is said to have a voice "as lovely as herself". This applies only to the talking parts, where indeed it is good, but when she sings, the synchronization instruments fail to function properly and the reproduction is rather uncertain...