Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hole in the Wall (Paramount). A band of crooks, recruited from the best talent of the legitimate stage, robs gullible ladies who come for messages from the dead, until one real ghost, through the mouth of brilliant Claudette Colbert, gives away the gang's secret. Best shot: a kidnaped baby on a wharf-ladder...
...Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...
Another, enlivening influence is the fact that education of a liberal sort can be pursued once more within the playhouse as well as the lecture hall. For with the end of the New York season Boston is privileged to see a few of the more noteworthy stage celebrities. Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Eva La Gallienne's Repertory company are both attractions of the very near future, and only slightly more remote is the promise of "Show Boat...