Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Worlds is another German film (notwithstanding its "European" label). It is not as good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this...
...granite hewn from the ledges on the side of the mountain. It affords a full view of the ocean and in the near distance are such places as those of Dr. J. B. Murphy, famed pathologist, and Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, Mass. These places are noted for their scenic grandeur...
...That in case the above demand fail of attainment, the Chinese Government should put up the signboard, "Englishmen and dogs not allowed," at various places of historical and scenic interest...
...names of such actors as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett are freely sprinkled over the ensuing pages. Humorous stories are told of missed cues, scenic mishaps. Madame Janauschek, temperamental, egotistical, flashes meteorically through the pages, is made to live again in her great roles and her off-stage tantrums. There are many amusing episodes of Shakespearean productions; atrocious costumes and absurd scenery failed to detract from the serious and pseudo-scholarly performances of the bombastic hams...
...proved ability, the orchestra will be conducted by a "former conductor of the Metropolitan," the dances will be arranged by the "foremost Russian master of choregraphy now resident "in New York," the costumes will be cut from original designs by an atelier in West 57th St., Manhattan, and the scenic effects will be suggested by the paintings of Zoloaga. Farrar and Zoloaga are the only names actually mentioned in connection with the enterprise...