Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly to life...
...days later Tsar Boris went to Prague and attended a performance of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The manager of the theatre, glancing through a prompt copy of the play, noticed that the scene was laid in Bulgaria, and read the line: "My father never had a bath in his life." Bulgaria was hastily changed to Albania, and the performance was given with great success...
Erin O'Brien-Moore, ingenue of Street Scene, recalled having met "Red" Mohan. She was "busy" when he telephoned, she said...
...front cover} Should an ancient fire-worshipper, reincarnated, return to the contemporary U. S. scene, it is perhaps in a steel-mill that he would find his most congenial employment. For the heart of the steel-mill is the flame of its furnace, and the power of the steel-mill is the heat of that flame. Cold and solid is steel to the layman. Hot and liquid it is to the steelworker, who is essentially one of dozens of cooks attending a titan's kettle of boiling muck. To him, it seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-Eugene O'Neill's curious, long, effective expedition into the human soul (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). STREET SCENE-A slice of tenement life, deftly cut (TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...