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Paul Raynal's The Tomb Under the Arc de Triomphe was being played for the first time. The hero is made to "strut" across the stage sneering at all who did not fight. This annoyed the audience. Then came the inevitable bedroom scene in which the hero's financèe gives herself to him, because he has been recalled to the front before the wedding can take place...
...world, tired of this giver of evil gifts, ready to kick him out of the age which, in spite of him, is so much like him, discovers that the old man has brought back to life a brave and beautiful and altogether lovely and lovable creature?Joan of Arc...
Richard the Lion-Hearted. There is certain utility in historical motion pictures even though their dramatic values are moderate. The most determined dissenter of the schoolroom cannot fail to ingest romantic staples such as Jeanne d'Arc, Peter the Great, Lincoln and a hundred others, including the hero herein discussed. The development of this mental negative into an actual picture on the screen clarifies modern preconceptions of the past. If the representation is authentic the picture returns permanent profit to the spectator...
...days in the year is deducible from the dimensions of an inner chamber. One of the interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius. Cheops is oriented to within five minutes of arc to modern latitude and longitude. Its meridian divides the Delta of the Nile and the habitable continents into two equal parts...
...guard is back, according to Mr. Hull, in the stronghold of the Republican Party. Said he: " Conditions have changed for the worse since Taft's time. In fact, they arc five-fold worse than they were then. This is the group that does the financing of the Republican Party. If Roosevelt were alive, no doubt he would be after it hammer and tongs, and denouncing its members for the political porch-climbers and second-story men that they...