The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

Record Details:

Title:
The Moving Picture Weekly
Date:
1920-1921
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, The Moving Picture Weekly
Volume:
The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)
Leaf #:
000502
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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24 —THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY— ''Built For Laughing Purposes ' LYONS and MORAN In their first UNIVERSAL SPECIAL ATTRACTION The Five-Reel Comedy "Hit" Story by EDGAR FRANKLIN Directed by LYONS & MORAN ^'•'T^HE multitude of screen fans," 1 says the M. P. World, "who have watched Lyons and Morsm do their team work in short subjects will be pleased with this, their first five-reel production. It is done in their best comedy vein and carries a good, light plot with numerous laughing moments strung through the action." "Like the suspense in well-written melodrzmia," says Wid, "the comedy in 'Everything But the Truth' is accumulative through a series of very humorous scenes and good complications handled with appreciative comedy sense. . . . Lyons and Moran are entirely successful in their first featiu-e comedy." "EVERHHING BUT THE TRUTH'^