Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been left to Governors. So scant was official interest in New Hampshire and Louisiana that no pictures were chosen at all from these States. First National had only three abstractions, a few surrealisms, countless landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were the Hawaiian entries, except for John C. Young's painting of blue-white water foaming against rocks. Puerto Rico's N. Poy was even worse with a peon and green bananas. The Panama...
...taste: exceptionally well done is the scene in which Julie's (Helen Morgan) husband discovers that she has negro blood, following her exposure by the malicious Pete. One of the best shots occurs when Ravenal sings "Only Make Believe" to his small daughter as he is about to desert her and Magnolia. This movie should not be missed...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
Containing no dialog, with only 700 words of exposition by an unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes...
...forget." More at home in Under Two Flags are Ronald Colman, who wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many a bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while...