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John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...obliging, conjured together a ministry of professional statesmen. The new Government represents militarist-torn China in much the same way that a sea captain whose crew have mutinied and are fighting amongst themselves represents the cringing passengers locked below decks...
...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...
Women: "I find amongst many anecdotes [concerning women] a note of an Austrian General, who, in 1859, was savagely denounced by a French newspaper because he had put in an application to headquarters for belladonna...
...addition to those mentioned above there were present, amongst other notables, the President of the Royal Academy, D. Ramon Mevindez Pidal, the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, D. Eduardo Ibarro; professors Sanchoz Abornoz, Castilligo and Garcia de Diego, and the family of Professor Ford...