Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
...actor moves his lips while a person off stage talks into the recording device...
Many a movie man smiled; it was a moral victory for the motion picture over the stage. The "legits" had been forced to fight the cinema with weapons that the cinemagnates introduced. But no smile twisted the cheeks of the more astute picturemen. To these wiser ones the action of the stagemen seemed a threat. The Brothers Shubert alone own, control or have easy access to more than 30 theatres in the provinces. Less powerful individually but dangerous en masse are Hammerstein, Brady, Woods, lesser lights. The Vocafilm reputedly costs less to install than does Movietone, Vitaphone. Further, cinemagnates recalled...
...salaries to be paid legitimate actors, nothing was printed. Rumor said performers would be paid flat sums for Vocafilm recording as now is done by Vitaphone, Movietone. Satisfactory terms, sufficient to prevent the stage stars being lured to the movies, surely would be arranged. Few artists, no hams, can wage private salary war against a Shubert-Hammerstein-Brady-Woods combination...