Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study in contrasts is Cecil B. DeMille's "The Volga Boatman," now showing at the Fenway. In this, and in many other respects, the film is typical of De Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song...
...only fair to say that no sides are taken by the director in the presentation of the revolution. At the Fenway, it is true, the balcony clapped the Reds, and the orchestra applauded the Whites, but the film painted both sides equally black at times, equally white at others. The hero, William Boyd, is a Red, the heroine, Elinor Fair, a White. What could be more fair...
...director of "The Ten Commandments" succeeds pretty well in keeping in the background the revolution, and concentrates his plot upon the three main characters a prince, a princess, and a boatman. For once there are no gold bathtubs, and panorama effects give way to close-ups as the emotions of the three principles are pictured...
Died. Henry Miller, 66, famed U.S. London-born actor, producer, theatre owner, director and occasional playwright; in Manhattan of pneumonia...
...born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters, birdmen, trainers. For imparting personality to his animal characters...