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Biographers of this type claim to have established a school of analytical biography. They devote themselves to the principle that if Cesar Borgin is thought a villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...CESAR AND CLEOPATRA-Shaw jibes at the ancients through the accomplished sound boxes of the Theatre Guild and Helen Hayes...
...Zorro. Master, this time, of the Australian stock whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...
David Belasco, wizard of the realistic stage, is about to sell his collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress EugÉnie; Staffordshire ware, vessels, plates, figurines; European and Chinese porcelains; Chinese porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods...