Word: altruistic
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...critics outside Sacramento the efforts involved in getting Sutter's Gold on the screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
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...Norwich, England, Harry Stanley Green, bank clerk, transferred $70,000 from the accounts of rich clients to those of poor clients, took no shilling for himself. Confident that he had helped to relieve the Depression, Altruist Green went to jail for a year...
Editor Shepard at present occupies a cluttered office in "John Martin's House," on the 14th floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story...
...Pudowkin as an actor does not create as fine an artistic production as he has done as a director, being too prone to expressionless acting somewhat after the German fashion. He plays the part of a man of moral cowardice and converse moral idealism; he is weak, but altruistic as only a Russian altruist...