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Scrap Book contains a burlesque of East Lynne, a scene from King John, bits from Pagliacci and Carmen, a radio sketch, a musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha...
...Author. In the days when Chicago was having a literary renaissance Ben Hecht was one of the better-known in a group that included Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters. Called variously iconoclast, intellectual mountebank, "in-sincere fiddler," "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," Hecht was famed for his conversation; "his subtle innuendoes, his philosophical observations, his penetrating irony, his vehement indignation, his gentle persuasiveness, his dubious facts." Once a collaborator with Maxwell Bodenheim, Hecht soon quarreled with him: the quarrel is still going on.* Mustachioed, with rumpled hair, pouchy eyes, Ben Hecht looks like what...
...Pagliacci (Audio-Cinema Inc. & Fortune Gallo). Unkind people have said that Fortune Gallo does not like music much. He is a lively and busy executive, a bank director, concert manager, and, primarily, president and treasurer of the San Carlo Opera Company. Once when he was running an opera company in California he suggested to Composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo, who was working for him as a conductor, that Pagliacci would make a good movie. Leoncavallo refused to allow his masterpiece to be photographed unless the music went with it, but Gallo did not drop the idea. Last week, with characteristic enterprise...
Opera has often come to film-seers in little pieces. One of the first things Warner Bros, did with the sound device was to make a series of short features in which famous stars sang arias. The experiment was not continued. Had Gallo's Pagliacci been made with singers from the Metropolitan their names might have been enough to put it over in fair-sized cities, but the cast means little as a draw nor is it overskillful. The singers act only when they feel their voices going back on them. This deficiency is startlingly revealed by closeups; there...
...Making Pagliacci will not rank with the past feats of Maestro Gallo, who once said of Pavlova "I bought her outright," and who persuaded the deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii to go to one of his shows though she had not been out of her palace for 22 years. However, it is a courageous piece of pioneering and reveals a fact many producers had guessed but none had proved: grand opera is never likely to be successful cinema...