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Show THEME NOT NEW. While its nothing: much to get excited about, the public cannot help but notice the gre.it number num-ber of talking motion pictures which serve to glorify stage people, peo-ple, with the theme idea being 'the show must go on, and the actor, deep in his secret grief, faces the fickle audience and sings or dances light-heartedly. The job of putting up a brave front is not confined to stage folk. The theme is not new, 'the show must go on' as far as people in all walks of life are concerned. All of us face fickle audiences constantly and there are times when appearances must belie realities. Many persons per-sons have gone about their tasks with the 'business as usual' attitude atti-tude and faced the public heart-sick. And usually, they are stronger spiritually for the ordeal. The theme idea is more poignantly poig-nantly expressed in a motion picture pic-ture story of stage life. Here the person must clown and burlesque, bur-lesque, must amuse the public while nursing a broken heart. Examples of to what we refer are Lon Chaney in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", and Al Jolson in 'The Singing Fool.' There are scores of others. Court scenes have afforded numerous dramatic situations in the talkies also. If lawyers quizzed a witness in the manner in which they often do in the movies, they would be ordered from the courtroom. But the 'show must go on' idea leads them all. We are getting just a little tired of it. |