Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving...
...related on the stage by means of episodic scenes. The girl is beautifully played by an actress new to the Manhattan stage, Zita Johann, whom the expert Arthur Hopkins has discovered among the ranks of road players and raised, as he raised Barbara Stanwyck and Pauline Lord, to stardom. George Stillwell plays the woman's husband with a touch of burlesque that throws the role out of drawing with the true characters opposed to it. The sets, designed by Robert Edmond Jones, are changed against a cyclorama...
...First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
...Creighton Hale have been blended with thoughtful, valuable effect. It is about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady's worst endeavors on the screen...