Word: photoplay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just finished reading Mr. Nichol's review of the "movie"version of "Brown of Harvard", which I helped adapt for the screen and I make haste to apologize to all Harvard undergraduates for the fact that, according to Mr. Nichols, the photoplay is not in the least like Harvard as it really...
Moving-picture actors and actresses will be subject to the inconveniences of Lampy's humor when the "Photoplay" number issues forth from the bricked recesses of the witty building on April...
...photoplay will in all probability take the name of "Brown at Harvard", the notorious stage representation of Harvard life which when it was presented in Boston some 20 years ago was hooted off by members of the University who objected to its incongrouous notions of Yard life. However, the name of the stage Interpretation will be preserved for its value as publicity, Mr. Orr said, although the motion picture proucers do faithfuly intend to make the finished film a truthful and authentic version of University life...
...with her strait-laced notions about the dastardliness of shooting even in self-defense, is herself going to be faced with the problem of killing a man, before her brain clears. Then Alice Calhoun feels free to love John Bowers, though he claims three murders to his credit. The photoplay is not bad for its type, though an outstanding feature is the utter absence of juries after each homicide...
...whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger...