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Good shots: The street crowd dancing in the drizzle under umbrellas; children running down the hill stairway to get a paper lantern; Raymond Cordy, his taxi bumped from behind, stopping, starting to argue before he gets his head out the window; drunken Paul Olivier terrifying the other patrons of a cabaret by fondling a revolver with a view to suicide, readily giving up to the headwaiter, then pulling a second from another pocket; The final shot from above the deserted street in which wait the abandoned cab and flower cart...
...shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor, the rest of the picture is fairly entertaining because Frank Morgan and Alice Brady give such good performances...
...Saturday afternoons in 1859 Manhattanites trooped to Hope Chapel at Broadway and Eighth Street. At the door "scholars" paid 6?, all others 15?. Inside they climbed a dark stairway to a big covered platform. Hidden gas lamps above lit a circle of landscapes 15 ft. high. Soon a lecturer appeared and talked steadily through the audience's vicarious "Tour Through Italy." The canvas cylinder moved slowly, exposing seriatim the start in Boston Harbor, the rolling Atlantic, several hundred views of Italy and finally the return home to New York Harbor...
Last act of Three-Cornered Moon is even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending...
When the tablet was first set up in a spot under the northwest stairway it was decided to try several positions in an effort to find the most appropriate one. Later it was placed on the west side of the north wall in the main body of the Church...