Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Irish love in a garret pads the complicated and somewhat disconnected framework of this story of a prisoner's escape and revenge. The old-line stage detective who is disagreeable until the last minute is played with remarkable gusto by Willard Mack, who also directed and wrote the picture. After the first performance in Manhattan, the following tribute appeared in an advertisement in the N. Y. World: "The Voice of the City . . . would fit any medium but is best as a talkie. . . . (signed) Willard Mack." Best shot: a living corpse dangling from...
...coal box in the flat," said Landlady Hanner at an early stage of the debate, "is not in keeping with the propriety of such a fashionable neighborhood...
With two such stars as Ada May and Clariborue Foster on a bill, Seniors recovering from divisional, and underclassmen wearied with the reading period, could do no better than drop into the Keith Memorial tonight or tomorrow to see for themselves that stage and musical comedy stars who go on the vaudeville circuit are far from passe...
...those who like the ballet, the numbers performed by the Pavley-Oukrainsky troupe are exceptional. The stage effects for this act are unusually attractive, and provide a delightful setting for several very pleasing numbers. Contrasted to the aesthetic appeal of the ballet is the act by Corinne Tilton, whose imitation of a "reshpectaful gurl on a shbig date" is uproarious and brings down the house...
...legitimate theatres will not disappear, but they will become very sparse. With the best authors and actors being drawn into the moving picture field by the compensation available, and with the 'Listerine' advertising propaganda and lower admission prices that the sound pictures offer, the stage is put in a difficult position. But this will achieve one thing: it will create such competition among the legitimate plays, that a natural weeding out process will take place...