Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have played principally the romantic drama," the actor continued, "though I did do Ibsen and his contemporaries some time ago. I find the modern theatre very creative, it is not decadent What I am troubled about is the opposition offered to the legitimate stage by the talking pictures...
...himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel Barrymore capably directed a fine cast which includes Lewis Stone and is distinguished by the superb acting of Ruth Chatterton. Best shot: Miss Chatterton telling her troubles in a cafe...
Edith Wharton (for excellence in literature), Julia Marlowe (for excellence in stage diction), Milton John Cross (for excellence in radio diction) were awarded gold medals last week by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (founded 1904, headquarters in Manhattan...
...William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...
There are four tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...