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...Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...
Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry...
...There were new sets by Robert Edmond Jones, thrilling in color and design, and a new English text by Robert A. Simon, gratefully free from the stilted archaic talk of the old librettos. Greatest tribute to Mr. Rosing was the ensemble, each member of which played like a trained actor as engrossed in being a soldier, or part of a street mob as Natalie Hall was in being Marguerita. Washington clapped the principals, who were really not principals at all but just part of Director Rosing's scheme, clapped the Jones sets, the gabbling street mob that crowded...
Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise...
...appear naive when I say that I consider that men like President Coolidge, who is so calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three...