Word: munis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He plays with gusto many parts?Napoleon, Joe Cans, Franz Schubert, Don Juan, Diablero?all waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning...
...Paul Muni grew up traveling with the stock-companies in which his father and mother had parts. When he was 11, they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis...
...Lucius N. Littauer (Gloversville, N. Y.) ; Public Officials Esther Andrews (Brookline, Mass.), William Freidman (Dade City, Fla.), Leon Schwartz (Mobile, Ala.), Alvin A. Wolff (St. Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald (New York...
...woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have to get along without its old man for some time...
...Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household. As diversified Jewish types, Actors Sam Mann, Clara Langsner, Muni Wisenfrend, and Luther Adler write whole life histories into feeble, broken lines, and it is in their creative work that the play's chief virtue lies...