Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him, was a queer sort of hero. Feuchtwanger's first volume told how Josephus, after fighting the Romans like an unexceptionable patriot, turned his cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled...
...were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from Chicago. Heroine of the evening, a newcomer from the Paris Opera, was Marjorie Lawrence. Australian-born soprano, who donned feathers and breastplate to sing the taxing...
...characters were as varied as Angna Enters' or Ruth Draper's. In a severe black cloak she was a tortured Yemenite youth wailing to God to take away his sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel...
...Vagabond feels the need of disgression himself. Climbing up his ladder tonight the Old Fellow found the rungs covered with ice! Winter is showing his sharpest teeth. The Tower at this moment is no picnic. Another log, ye merry hag. And fetch the Vagabond's cloak! We'll bear this through as in many winters past. Freedom! Freedom! Isn't that what George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron died for? Another log, merry hag! My fingers are a cold...
...performed in 1921 was a screen classic in its own right. That any subsequent version of the Dumas work would seem tame by comparison was almost inevitable. Consequently, it is to the credit of Author Dumas, Screenwriter Dudley Nichols, Director Rowland V. Lee and a cast of capable sword & cloak actors that this one is still a handsome, charming, and vivacious costume melodrama which, if something less than a cinema milestone, is still better than average entertainment...