Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jonesy. The Jones family has plenty to talk about: Father Jones is temporarily a jobhunter; Son Jones has a visiting boyfriend whose girlfriend has the telephone habit; there is no cereal for breakfast; plumbers are in the bathroom; a risque play has been raided downtown; Son Jones has sold the family car to pay poker debts and is traipsing around after an actress...
...effect on the audience is one of choked, hysterical amusement, no tribute to wit, but a healthy, spasmodic reaction to shenanigans. Press Representative John Peter Toohey and Anne Morrison wrote the play, based on Mr. Toohey's short stories in Pictorial Review. Raymond Guion is Son Jones...
Coquette (United Artists). In this dialog adaptation of an immensely successful stage play, Mary Pickford was faced with certain difficulties. The girl in the play is 18. Mary Pickford is known to be 36 and generally believed to be 39. The girl in-the play, emotionally mature, is a-passionate, complex personality. Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes...
...story of a girl who leaves a beaten playwright to cast her lot with a successful author. That is all; yet in its four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...
...passionate defense of "our team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing...