Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture in indeed a family affair. Lottie Pickford, absent from the screen for several years, plays devoted handmaiden to her sister, while Allan Forrest, Lottie's husband, portrays the gallant lover who rescues noble Dorothy from the intriguing circle that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history...
...Leave Home. If you want to be friends with your wife, divorce her. That is the general notion of this screen adaptation for Avery Hopwood's play, done so well by Lewis Stone, Helme Chadwick and Mary Carr that at times it suggests Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle. Mr. Hopwood has again used to advantage his favorite device of bringing an estranged husband and wife together in a quarantined house, and for once the obvious tag moral is so well put that it arouses mirth rather than wrath...
...Soldiers Field and defeated Wentworth Institute 7 to 3. Nash pitched well enough to earn a shutout, but two costly outfield errors led to three alien scores. The batting features were a homer to left center by Keene and a double by Field that bounced off the tennis-court screen in right center. Chase-contributed a pretty catch of a line drive to left...
Allbert Frankan has sold the motion picture rights of Gerald Cranstion's Lady" to the Fox film company, and the hero of modern big business ; will in due time be seen on the silver screen. It seems likely that the directions will be less explicit, in certain spots that the author, but the air-plane scene in which a lady pursues her (may be) lover into the fastnesses of a Vickers-Vimy cross-Channel plane when he tries, literally, to fly from her wiles, ought go well in the picture. They run into a terrible storm...
Even so, however, although American films may satisfy the craving for a time, it will doubtless not be long before native heroes of the silver-screen are developed from home talent. In this event Turkish movie addicts will do well to keep their eyes open, lest they fall victims to the same set of stereotypes which rules the American flock good old standbys like the hero of the range, the poor but-honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli...