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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juan (John Barrymore). The screen version of this good old story tells of a beautiful youth admirably trained to enjoy and deceive women. The young fellow goes his cynical way with rare abandon and success until, one evening in medieval Rome, he meets a young lady who is reluctant to surrender herself on ten minutes' acquaintance. Such an astonishing revelation of honor in the female sex transforms Don Juan. In fact, the lover of hundreds decides to marry. Before he can carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches...
Standpatter Goff was reluctant to abandon the original intention of the club, but he gave in when he. saw that his old friends were in agreement...
...Coronations do not come so very dear. Subtle ex-Tsar Ferdinand smiles in his beard. He answers no questions. Little Tsar Boris motors with abandon, hunts in picturesque attire, confides to pressmen that he loves birds, flowers, wolfhounds, but no woman-and witless rumors fly. Behind the iridescent screen of these puerilities, the old Tsar tweaks many a string, moves about Europe in welcome obscurity, continues to be a force which statesmen do not neglect to recognize...
...accomplish the formality of obtaining a pass to view the Kremlin. Similar to this are the often "well meaning" delays which are notorious in Soviet industry and were deemed characteristic of the Tsarol regime. Up to the present time no large group of Russians has ever been brought to abandon the dilatory ways upon which rests like a full blown lotus their universally undoubted charm...
Their motives have varied. Pastors Wicks and Clingman have just started their wealthy congregations on movements of community welfare (as Dr. Coffin has already done in Manhattan), work which they feel they cannot conscientiously abandon. Dr. Kirk would not leave his life-long friends. Young Dr. van Dyke simply requires the spiritual benefits of rusticity...