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...Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play to the tawdry "Tarzan of the Apes", by releasing a live ape named Prince Charley in the vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker. He writes "Next morning the story broke in every New York paper. Over long accounts of Charlie's adventures, were such headlines as, 'Tarzan's Ape Raids...
...London a cinema theatre manager received a note "with a bullet hole through it," reading: "If you put Kaiser Bill on your screen tonight I'll come and shoot him and the screen full of bird shot." Late despatches reported that the film had been withdrawn by the leasing company...
...whether they should attend them, Mr. Goldwyn replied, "I only wish that more of the college men of today would see the movies. The drama is recognized as being the greatest way to put across ideas, and is one of the greatest mediums of education. The drama of the screen is viewed by hundreds of millions of people, a very small percentage of whom have developed the powers of absorption. Many moving pictures of today contain a portrayal of life as it is lived. The perception of the average movie fan is not keen enough for these ideas...
Lady Windermere's Fan. The difficult business of filming Oscar Wilde has been entrusted to Ernest Lubitsch with the assistance of Irene Rich, Ronald Coleman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy. Perhaps the most exceptionally difficult task of the cinema is the transference to the screen of drawing-room comedy. Mr. Lubitsch has done it about as well as one could wish...
Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...