Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briefly, production may be considered as making things to sell. A more specific definition would be, that part of manufacturing which takes the raw material or semi-finished material, and carries it to the stage which makes it ready for delivery to the customer. Production, thus, is really a process of development of some material, making it ready for the use of those who-will require it, either in process or for consumption...
...return of Nazimova to her rightful position among the great of the speaking stage is another achievement of the amazing Miss Le Gallienne. Nazimova was born in the Crimea in 1879. Her cultured parents sent her to Moscow to study music, eventually to take up drama as a pupil of Stanislavsky. She excelled almost immediately. She reached New York in 1905 with a Russian company that played East Side theatres and eventually stranded...
Ravet was a giantish man from the mountains of Dauphine. He knew nothing of singing but he knew the stage and passionately probed all the great roles to their depths. He too loved Helma and had much to give. He gave it all and died. And Helma went on alone, only she was taller than before, and an artist...
...crashed the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight (1899) by exchanging a basket of stage money lor a basket of tickets. He saw the Jimmy Gardiner-Tommy Devine fight in a Milwaukee Armory (1903) from a steel girder to which he strapped himself early in the morning before the fight. He crashed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby, Montana (1923), by riding into the hot arena in a covered ice wagon...
...pure amusement this film ranks high, as an all-talking, even higher, but in comparison with the best products of the old "silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...