Word: screenland
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...plays are turning more and more in the direction of naturaliness. I do not mean that one trend is any more desirable than the other. For example, I think Mac West is a marvelous actress, and yet there is certainly nothing very natural or genuine in the acting of screenland's new it girl...
...must Fight" is a strange picture to come from Hollywood, where serious ideas are considered undeserving of screenland publicity. Such rare items as the evangelism of Cecil DeMille do not attempt to present conflicts of principle, and it is a new and brave thing to show the movie-going world the essential differences between pacifism and militarism...
...gratifying. The acting of Miss Starr where she is frantic for the welfare of her family deserves nothing but praise, and whereas Charles (Chic) Sales, who specialized as the grandfather, was guilty of exaggeration, Walter Huston played the prosecutor with more feeling than is usual in the case of screenland officials. "The Star Witness", in spite of occasional lapses, is sincere, pleasing entertainment...
...made into one of the first great crusading journals 17 years later by Butterick Publishing Co., discontinued in January 1930, last week Everybody's was revived as a cheap true-story vehicle. It will be published as "the magazine of real life stories" by Publisher Alfred Cohen (Screenland, Silver Screen, etc.). Cost...