Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exchange of Wives. And here is where the screen has put its foot into a trap again. Marriage is a matter too complicated for the stunted treatment accorded to nearly every screen play. Yet films on marriage persist. They must have a box office value, but it is the impression of many people that pictures of gilded vice and of marriages that do not jell are chiefly responsible for the low esteem in which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic...
...Regular Fellow. Raymond Griffith is rapidly rising dangerously near the position of leading light comedian of the screen. In this description he must be carefully distinguished from Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Keaton, who are specialists rather in slapstick...
...films, obtained by special arrangement with the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association for October 21, show the leading tennis players of the world making all forms of service and volley strokes. The motion is so retarded and repeated that it is possible for the observer to see, on the screen, exactly how these players execute their strokes...
...Father. Harold Bell Wright composes motion picture literature and sells it by the million copies. He has more competition when his plots reach the screen. There are plenty of people who can think up just as obvious adventures as he can; adventures which will photograph well against a background of the dusty West. This one is about an Irish girl, come all the way to Arizona to find her wandering brother. She finds herself in addition a close shooting, hard riding, handsome husband...
...Circle. Parts of this picture, particularly the early parts, make enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier...