Word: screens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dialog . . . outshocks" What Price Glory, were not the only weak spots in that vulgar attempt to screen something different...
...good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen's body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich man who tried to save his heir from a chorus girl is the framework of an indifferent screen musical show. As a technical accomplishment, Gold Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely. It fails because the story-framework is not adequate to the demands made on it. Expert playing...
...mistress could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert's wide-set eyes, tender voice and Gallic smartness herein make their screen debut. Graciously she suggests the thoroughbred woman who may be kept but who will ultimately be married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter Huston who last week delighted Manhattan in person in The Commodore Marries...
...rich and a few of their more obvious emotions. Her treatment of the story and the setting will facilitate its conversion for the movies. It is to be hoped, however, that some of the dialogue will be rearranged before it is squawked out from behind a flickering screen...
Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness...