Word: beau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans of the Storm; America. Beau Sabreur. Two novels, both best sellers, both written by Captain Percival Christopher Wren, both somewhat similar in title, have been translated into cinema by the Paramount Co. The first was Beau Geste. The second, in no wise a sequel, is Beau Sabreur, which is nobody's name but a phrase applied...
...Beau Geste. At Marseille, lucky Deserter Doty was met by U. S. correspondents who had learned about the French Foreign Legion from the U.S. cinema Beau Geste (TIME, Sept. 6, 1926). They remembered the tigerish Legion officer, in that film who allots blows & curses to his men. Are such kicks typical of the Legion...
...Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...
...novel Beau Geste is by Percival Christopher Wren; the film was made by Director Herbert Brenon...
Former enemy peoples gave no thought to the occasion, made no beau geste to the memory of the millions they killed and maimed, showed no contriteness for the anguish and sufferings they caused to tens of millions of people throughout the length and breadth of the world. Neither did they heed the ninth anniversary of the end of their own Wartime sufferings; the bitterness of defeat lay heavily upon them...