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...country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly facetious." The Gibson Girl had a formidable mother who was forever trying to marry her to titled foreigners with beards and ribbons across their shirtfronts (the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt...
...Disraeli" and "The Green Goddess," the whole plot revolves around the characterization of one man. The details of the story are insignificant. The supporting cast is over-shadowed. The play is no longer the thing. It is carried along by Arliss...
Ames, formerly managing director of the New Theatre is now manager of the Little and Booth Theatres in New York. His recent productions include "The Green Goddess", "Old English", and "The Merchant of Venice" with George Arliss, as well as "Beggar on Horseback", "White Wings" and "Escape". He will speak on his own methods of producing a play...
Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...
Tokyo Expects. In Japan it is the Sublime Emperor, 124th descendant of the Sun Goddess, who ratifies treaties. The Japanese Parliament has no say at all. In the face of concentrated, long-standing opposition by Japanese Navymen (TIME, June 2 et seq.), grizzled Prime Minister "Shishi" ("The Lion"; Hamaguchi journeyed last week to the Imperial summer residence at Hayama and, prostrate before the "Son of Heaven," presented Japan...