Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dark Angel. It was never satisfactorily explained last spring why the play (TIME, Feb. 23, THE THEATRE) from which this picture had its origin was unsuccessful. Possibly because the central character was a soldier blinded in the War, people were disinclined to favor it. It was, in any event, agreed to be an excellent play and has made an even more excellent movie. This blinded soldier fails to report to his fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman...
...heart from Chico's robust philosophy of life, and eventually rose to great heights of courage and renunciation. Ann Forrest avoided overdoing this difficult role, and gave the outstanding performance of the evening, and one of the best of this season. W. H. Post was the merry priest, guardian angel of the denizens of the sewer, and John W. Ransone, the lusty Boul'. Grace Menken made so effective a harpy that the audience hissed...
Buffalo. Abbott H. Thayer's The Boy and the Angel brought about...
...married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late in the second act. There follows a crazy dream, expressionistic in interpretation, in which the fiancée glides around in an angel's outfit while the fiancé wrestles with his past...
...Jones has lived in Texas since his youthful migration from Tennessee. He made millions in lumber, rose to bank and railroad directorships, took a big man's interest in politics, became international as a Red Cross man with H. P. Davison, became national as a Democratic angel. He was opposed to placing all the advertising through one agency. On money matters, he was a little "hard-boiled." But, at fitful intervals during October, he (or Chairman Clem Shaver, through James W. Gerard, Democratic National Treasurer) paid to Van Patten Inc. $50,000 because, according to the latter, various publishers were...