Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...those mythical kingdom stories, you can pretty well figure out what is going to happen. The hero is going to save the Princess from marrying the nasty old king. There is going to be a revolution and ultimate happiness. And so it is. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel, plus the somehow inevitable fascination of this romantic pattern, make a pretty entertaining picture...
Lord Jim. Conrad's great novel of cowardice has been done into a pretty good motion picture. It should have been a great picture and the manufacturers have only themselves to blame. The usually expert Percy Marmont rather underscales the potentialities of the leading character. The rest is too often routine...
Richard Henry Parnell Curle, of London, will lecture this evening in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock on Joseph Conrad, of whom he was an intimate friend. The talk is to be given under the auspices of the English Department, and will be open to the public...
...Joseph Conrad's attitude towards his work will be discussed, a subject on which no one is better qualified to speak than Mr. Curle. Books he has written are "Joseph Conrad, a Study": "Aspects of George Meredith," and "Wanderers...