Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simpers for our heroes. Humor, in the enlightened sense of the word, is lacking, but good shots of Young Communists having a real side-splitting cachinnation excite a sympathetic titter in the audience. Unless the film has been miserably cut, it is filled with inexcusably bewildering digressions: the Playgoer is still puzzling over the meaning of storm upon storm, hands beating the harem door, the profusion of dead camels,--a species reputedly drought-proof,--and many prayers to Allah. Apparently these loose ends are tucked in for the footage, or perhaps it is just the Russian...
...hotel theme with the monumental productions, "Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...
...Gray Shadow" is certainly not for the playgoer who takes his drama seriously, but for the average spectator who is willing to fail into the blood-and-thunder spirit of the thing, this play ought to prove entertaining enough...
...what Mr. March would make of "Dr. Jekyll" at the University Theatre was a matter of live interest to this Playgoer. For no sooner had lurid posters shown forth the face of Hyde than Stevenson's story came back from early schooldays with all its creeping horrors. It was indeed a tale to harrow up the soul, freeze the young blood; and one day a very young reviewer squirmed in his theatre seat as John Barrymore darkened the screen with the long shadow of Hyde. Not even a break in the film and an "End of Reel Three" sign could...
...filming "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" Douglas Fairbanks has made the most entertaining travelogue that the Playgoer has ever soon. The photography alone would recommend it highly, but this is only part. Mr. Fairbanks' running-fire comment, through starting out somewhat in the Graham McNamee vein, grows better and better as time goes by. Above all, there is an incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride...