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...Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson). Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, bequeather of radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment...
After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...Evelyn Marshall Field (merchandise) Gloria Swanson (cinema) John Barrymore (cinema) Anthony H. G. Fokker (aeronautics) Frank B. Patterson (National Cash Register Co. president...
Cecile Sorel said she thought Florence Reed and Ethel Barrymore were two of America's greatest actresses, that Gloria Swanson was a great artist, and Charlie Chaplin a genius. "America has the greatest cinema in the world," she stated. "My one regret is that the art of the great Duse is not perpetuated by the films...
...Princeton professors that "in the most remote regious of Europe one finds Hollywood setters the fashions in clothes and the way people live in their homes." Small wonder that a nation whose ambassadors include such glamorous gentlemen as John Gilbert, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson; such intoxicating ladies as Miss Swanson, Miss Naldi and Miss Daniels should create alarm. Domestic life in Hollywood is not generally accepted as typical of domestic life in points north and east; nor is the dress affected by members of Mr. Sennett's school entirely representative of American womanhood...