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MARY PHILBIN IS STAR IN “MERRY-GO-ROUND”Faster and faster whirled the merry-go-round, the merry-go-round of life in Vienna, the gayest, most colorful, most fascinating city on the face -of the globe!“The Merry Go Round,” one of the best pictures put out by Universal, comes to the K. A. It. theater Fri-[ day and Saturday.More lavish, more riotous, more reckless was the pace of those who rode on the merry-go round, humming and spinning to the tune of love, life and luxury, j The voluptuous, scintillating lifo of royal Austria before the catastrophic World War is pictured in all its colorful glopy. Held as in a vise in the midst of the vivid whirl of the r life of. an emperor's court, he looked i out to the girl he loved. Free from the mad whirl of luxury, safe from , the loves, hates, passions and ambitions of that glittering tide of wastefulness, she waited patiently and trustfully for her lover. The inevitable command of the emperor had bound him. to one he did not love.’ Mary Phllbin, who plays the stel-1 Jar role, was in an Flit’s beauty con-' test in Chicago when a director first ' saw her and she was sent to Universal City.. So Mary PMlbiri has worked-— , bard’—and waited. No doubt she haswondered at the long way ahe had had to travel to stardom—for Mary has proven herself an artiste, with an artiste's impulsive, imaginative tera-perame-nt.After three years—because Of Utv beauty, intelligence and willingness to work and to learn—her chance came. Under Rupert Julian'* direction she appears in the lead opposite Norman Kerry in “Merry Go •■Hound.*’'HYENA PLAYS VIVID ROLE IN REID FILM“In a long stage and screen experience one finds many actors who ara temperamental to the nth degree, but we recently encountered one who had them all lashed to the mast—-a-, hyena.” So said Director John Griffith Wray, director of “Human Wreckage,” coming to the Linden theater next Sunday,“After three weeks of exhaustive search for a. hyena who was vicious enough to carry out the ideas of our script, it took more than three weeks filming the action of the brute.“He Worked when he wanted to and when he didn't feel like It ho didn’t-We actually spent a whole day trying* to get him to do one or two simple tricks for some double exposures. He growled from morning tili night* li 3 cut up 3'urds of velvet with hi* claws and he even took a nip at the hand of one of the men trying to keep him within camera lines.“But,” said Wray, “we got eomei great stuff with this fellow.”
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Chicago Englewood Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Oct 31, 1923
Page 6
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