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...mother, who lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices, seldom socializes, has not danced with anyone except her husband since her marriage. She enjoys reading Rostand, Conrad and Ferber; she attends the theatre six nights a week when she is not working...
...adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their...
...jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story in the English language." Tall, lean, with very straight hair, hollow eyes, drooping mustache. Author Crane moved, smiled, spoke slowly. He died of consumption at Baden, Germany...
Keith's--"Second Wife", Conrad Nagel and also Lila Lee after a long absence...
Dangerous Paradise (Paramount). In the masthead of this film the producers announce that it is "based on incidents from a novel by Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the novel was the famous Victory. As a matter of fact the picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved...