Word: photoplay
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...Where and when did I start dancing? Well, I first manifested my terpsichorean proclivities--this is a a Photoplay interviews, isn't it?--on the street concerns of Charlestown, Massachusetts-no, not Charlestown, Black Bottom-not for Art's sake but for pennies. Next came a platform and a Dr. Bunkum who sold potent medicines while I held the crowd. I quit when he tried to use me as an illustration for the benefits of Peppy corn plasters...
...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...