Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Now every reader of the Hearst press knows that Bolsheviks have beards, and carry bombs in their Left hands. How have these gentlemen managed so long to keep their true character hidden while teaching Communism to American youth?
During the long period he gradually changes and his character becomes more nearly like that of Christ until the Inquisition he is prototype of the true follower of Christian teaching.
But the directors of the film have chosen to make it a character sketch of a remarkable person and have been surprisingly successful in attaining their goal. It would have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental...
Some arts like stage design (discussed ably by John Mason Brown) and the movies (the subject of Miss Iris Barry's article) are not "pure," but are hybrids which owe their genesis to the blending of several arts. Mr. Brown is right in observing that the modern stage designer leaves...
...true, however, that an inclusively cut characterization of the strange Chapayev is achieved, mostly through delicate direction. This Garibaldi of the Soviets is probably the best remembered of the heroes who sprang from the people to rid the new Russia of the White armies. A born leader of men, a man of magnificent courage and character, yet uneducated and scarcely lettered, Chapayev was thought to need direction by the high Soviet command. Thus, Commissar Furmanov is detailed to consolidate the army's gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told...