Word: studio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Excitement and little damage was caused in the square last evening at 6.32 o'clock when flames burst from under the eaves of Notman's studio, and headed for the roof. Six fire engines were immediately summoned to the scene, and ladders leaned against the building from the Massachusetts Avenue side...
Womanhandled. When Gloria Swanson was making Manhandled at the Famous Players studio, some one suggested that "Woman-handled" would be a good title for a picture. Certain members of the concern held up their hands in tasteful protest but the notion persisted. This is the picture and indeed much better than the title deserves. It is a light comedy about steam heat and tennis courts on the erstwhile supposedly primitive ranches of the West. Richard Dix, good actor, is the star...
...Unguarded Hour. If you have forgotten what Milton Sills looks like, wait patiently at this one and you can find out. He strolls in very late as that fabulous creature, an ascetic Italian duke. But his arrival does little to help the piece, which is melo-amorous studio stuff and none too clever at that. Doris Kenyon is present as a somewhat simpering U. S. jazzabel out on an ultimately successful coronet hunt. The header (out of a window) that wicked Count Stelio (Charles Beyer) takes is alleged actually to have dislocated the actor's neck...
...must be recalled, however, that the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio came into being during the Russian Revolution; its first performance was given on May 16, 1920, after a prolonged and extensive period of experimentation. Thus the organization now assembled at the Al Jolson Theatre, Manhattan, is perhaps the youngest of the great theatrical and musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac...
...Daughter of Madame Angot, on the other hand, was pitched in a wholly vivacious and amusing key. It was the first production attempted by the Musical Studio, and in consequence the original French libretto and the famed Lecocq score showed not a trace of M. Dantchenko's later, bolder and almost slashing adaptations in the name of synthesis. The complete versatility of his troupe was proved by the fact that all but one of the leading roles of the piece were played in Manhattan by "singing actors" who had had only minor parts in Lysistrata and La Perichole...