Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gordon's Olympia--"The dark Angel", continuous...
With Deodata, now the detached Arachne (weaver) of the society, who is exquisite to behold and like himself a product of the Dark Continent (Europe), he sets sail from He des Dames to seek the high destiny predicted in his horoscope at birth. One of his loveliest daughters pursues him into the very waves, frantically lashing her zebu bull...
...Dark Angel. It was never satisfactorily explained last spring why the play (TIME, Feb. 23, THE THEATRE) from which this picture had its origin was unsuccessful. Possibly because the central character was a soldier blinded in the War, people were disinclined to favor it. It was, in any event, agreed to be an excellent play and has made an even more excellent movie. This blinded soldier fails to report to his fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman...
...like a huge beast, spun him around through the air, smashed his legs against a fence. Townsfolk came running-stopped, terrified, a dozen yards from the moaning, broken body. At Joerg's feet crouched the dog. Something had hurt his master, let no one else try it. The dark snarling beast, the little circle of white faces, the bloody bundle on the ground. For an hour he kept at bay the doctor who could have saved his master. At last he was enticed aside. M. Joerg had bled to death...
Almost as soon as the incredulous world began to realize that the Locarno conference may have brought the pugnacious European powers into some kind of agreement, dark prophets arose seeing a more sinister implication in the conference. True enough, says one of the Boston Transcript's foreign correspondents, that Germany and France are at least apparently in closer accord; but the significance of this surface miracle would blind no one to the fact that this closer cementing of European powers has been accomplished to the accompaniment of a feeling among the assembled diplomats that "We'll show America...