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...Faces (directed by Leonard Sillman and Elsie Janis; Charles Dillingham, producer...
Most of the performers in New Faces, a pee-wee revue, lacking a chorus, are unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment...