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Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Calif., Feb. 21, 1921.
SPECIAL costumes for attendants has become a rule rather
than an exception in the majority of theatres where
feminine ushers are employed. S. Barret McCormick dressed
ushers of the Ambassador and Kinema theatres,
Los Angeles, as shown above for the showing of „Passion,“
the First National attraction, gaining definite relationship
of atmosphere to picture and unusually pleasing optical effect
by a single stroke.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, April 16, 1921
& „Curtain“ Accorded First Prologue
Staged By S. Barret McCormick at New Ambassador
S. BARRET McCORMICK, a national figure
by reason of his spectacularly effective
showmanship methods applied at the Circle theatre,
Indianapolis, Ind., and later at the Rivoli, Toledo,
O., thoroughly satisfied West Coast expectations when citizens
of Los Angeles were shown his first prologue staged
at the New Ambassador theatre, illustrated herewith. „Curtain,“
Katherine MacDonald‘s First National attraction, was
the production accorded the presentation.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, Feb. 12, 1921
& Ambassador-Kinema „Passion“
Presentation McCormick‘s Greatest Work on West Coast
S. BARRET McCORMICK, managing director
of the Ambassador and Kinema theatres, Los Angeles, scored
his most remarkable success since joining West
Coast showmanship circles in his exploitation and presentation
of „Passion,“ the First National attraction. The above
illustration, showing the prologue staged at both theatres,
conveys a general impression of the character which
the entire enterprise assumed.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, April 9, 1921
„In this, Chaplin‘s supreme art is seen“
Editorial content. „,The Kid‘ Reigns
Chaplin‘s Latest Brain Child a Wonder
By Grace Kingsley.
The Kid is here at last!“ (...)
„There‘s really no classifying The Kid. The best one can
do is say that it has all the old melodramatic material,
but so jazzed up with fun and with its drama so simply and
humanly played, that it almost fools you into believing
it is like life. In this, Chaplin‘s supreme art is seen.
And who that feels his power to evoke laughter and tears,
as the happy-go-lucky bum, who has the baby wished
on him to care for, will ever deny him the title of artist?“ (...)
Ambassador Theatre, 3400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.
The Kid is pre-released by First National
in Los Angeles February 19, 1921.
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