Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SERIOUS...
Other well-regarded serious plays: ESCAPE, Civic REPERTORY PRODUCTIONS, MARCO MILLIONS...
...voices, Cinema Critic Harriette Underhill wrote: "The fact that all screen talking devices give the characters a certain lisp, slightly detracts from the serious effect. So, when the beautiful heroine clasps her hands, rolls her eyes and cries, 'Why do you perthitht in perthecuting me? I am innothent!' it sounds funnier than if she were speaking her lines in 'perthon...
...well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo and the superb lighting effects make Primanerliebe another reason why U. S. producers should take some more hints from Germanv...
...from the ideal of President Eliot. As a type of education for secondary schools, it appears excellent; whether or not it is successful there may soon be known through the experiment at Avon, Connecticut, where such a school is now in existence. But as a college measure it possesses serious defects, beyond the almost insurmountable task of supplanting by it the present system...