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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
7
The article discusses how producers and managers seek clean film content, avoiding risky scenes. Censors and theatre managers monitor projections, sometimes pulling releases to maintain decency. Overall many screenplays aim to uplift entertainment for all audiences.
The Polls vaudeville program opens with Ladies of the Jury a witty sketch about twelve women judging a murder case. Frank Mullane earns curtain calls, while Choy Ling Hee Troupe and Rudinoff entertain with magic and smoke painting. Carter De Haven bring Spit-Vie humor. Pathe News airs events. Park theatre presents Joy Bells burlesque with Hesse Hickupe and a strong chorus. Lyric teases with Christmas mood.
William Faversham portrays the gambler in The Sin That Was His who bets big with a young miner. The money is returned to teach the youth a harsh lesson as the feature play unfolds on the screen.
Gordon H Standing shifts from silent to speaking stage in Barrie playlet Half an Mott as Thomas Meighan commutes to Hollywood for The Quarry. Plans include What Is the Matter With Marage based on Jack London and a California ranch life tale. Also features Five O’clock, Tarzan of the Apes, It’s a Boy, Pathé News, and Lyric Orchestra concert.
A fragmented humor piece details writing a problem photodrama with many subtitles and dialogue, a mock path to fame via mail to a major studio, and a cavalcade of odd scenes. It includes a vaudeville quip and mock commentary on movies and the eighteenth amendment, ending with a garbled joke about a new production.
The Jamaga Daily News forecasts home cinema use to solve servant issues with private screenings for family and staff. Advertisers seek footmen for large houses while producers explore psychology experts to improve casting and realism in photoplays.
Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess Burr McIntosh and other stars will join Mr Griffith as guests of honor next Monday at the Forty fourth Street theater to mark the film's 200th performance. Temple Dust by Metro is nearly completed with Constance Talmadge Chet Withey and crew in Florida for The Man From Toronto exteriors. Norma Talmadge's Satan's Paradise renamed Playing the Game leaves for Atlantic City for a weeklong vacation.
A bustling New York program offers a spoof night at the cinema with a varied lineup. Overture features Leontratzky's Second Symphony. a suburb ski scene. headlines including President-elect Harding and a Romanian arrival. a battleship pose. a breaking Eighteenth Amendment gag. and stage numbers with comic misfires. The film bill includes Miss Oleo margarine Pipp, The Darling of the Screen, and Oh Gosh Moonshine a bathing girl revue.
In West Orange New Jersey three young offenders aged ten eleven and twelve were sentenced by Recorder John Ti Lander to banishment for a month with 6:30 pm bedtimes on Christmas Eve and New Year Eve, no Christmas presents or festivities, and required apologies. Their names were withheld as authorities explained the boys vandalized Saint Cloud Sunday school by breaking a window stealing pencils and erasers and smearing mud on the minister's lamps.
In the question box readers ask if formal dramatic training is essential for film acting. The answer says not really, noting studios provide the best training once a chance is earned, and famous actors like Douglas Fairbanks continue to learn on the job.
The picture titled The Right to Love is stronger in production than plot, with elegant photography and fine seating. The Turkish-set drama relies on a melodramatic turn as the hero kills the husband to unite lovers, a device critics deem overused and unnecessary. The abused wife lacks resolve, but the film remains engaging and vivid.weet net rtica, rider of the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, has been traded to the Chicago Nationals for an infielder and an outfielder per Wade Killefer’s report from the East.
A casting director for Goldwyn Studios notes Los Angeles hosts about two hundred fifty producing companies seeking capable performers. He cites fierce competition, rising pay to around 900 dollars weekly for some actors, and the danger of miscasting. He argues true artistic ability and natural fit with roles drive success, as audiences see every facial cue on screen. He emphasizes the need for varied talent and warns against overpricing new actors before they prove themselves.
An avid moviegoer argues films can guide youths to discern right from wrong as critics clash over morality bans. The letter contends cinema reveals hypocrites and should be left to public judgment rather than legal restriction. Italy counters illiteracy by opening 2000 schools and enlisting 80,000 teachers.
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