Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue at all. Best...
...female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton...
...make and keep, a reputation in the serious theatre. Unlike the numerous slightly or violently dowdy ladies whose one claim to distinction after youth has. passed is that they, were once members of a Follies chorus', she found musical comedy more than a means for leaving the stage. Schooled by Belasco-who has so often seen talent where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers...
...Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly...
...staging of the "Strange Interlude" on Harvard Square became a real possibility yesterday when Charles E. Hatfield, owner of the University Theatre on Harvard Square, offered his stage to the Theatre Guild of New York as a scene for the production of Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play recently banned in Boston...