Word: clodfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sunrise. In Germany, F. W. Murnau, Ufa director, made The Last Laugh and Faust. Last week at a showing of his first Hollywood film, people looked to him, as usual, to repeat. In Sunrise he has a meagre story of a clod of a farmer who almost drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student...
...cinema based on Tolstoi's drama the slow writhing of Russian peasants in the shackles of ignorance under the bludgeoning of Fate. Whether drunk, sober, at home in their hovels, or on the icy road to Siberia, the characters always convey the tragedy of aspiration groping under a clod...
...clod, a piece of orange peel, The end of a cigar, Once trod on by a Princely heel How beautiful they...
...mediocre results, since the plot did not lend itself well to stage production. Cleves Kinkead, who was studying at Harvard in 1914 and whose "Common Clay" won the Craig prize for the same year, wrote "The Four Flushers," which the Dramatic Club produced. On the same bill was "The Clod," by E. L. Beach '13. "The Clod" has since toured the country on various vaudeville circuits...
...operated as a stimulant upon the minds of all English knights of the pen who have written about him. Two of Sir James Barrie's observations are justly famous: "The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were my politics...