Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting is of the highest order. The character of Disraeli subtly, surely grows under his hands; the race for the Suez Canal passes the bounds of national interest and becomes a contest for the breathless world to watch. His scenes with Lady Beaconfield (Mrs. Arliss) are touching, without being sentimental; with Lord Probert (Ernest Torrence) he transmates financial discussions into powerful drama. The lovely Joan Bennett has charm in the innocuous romantic subplot. But none of the other characters are, or need to be, outstanding. The leading man carries off the play...
DISRAELI (George Arliss)-Epigramo-phone record of the purchase of the Suez Canal...
...about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras party, that I was supposed to have attended, to have been a terrible thing. Evidently some of you have been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have, you know that the whole town carries on on Canal Street as much as could have been carried on in any of the several Little Theatre parties that I might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from these libelous and scandalous...
...House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England sign the check that bought the Suez Canal...
...Lawrence Ship Canal...