Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Carolina Negro, may have been surprised to find him now gazing with catholic compassion upon the tragedy of a white North Carolina farmer who marries his niece in defiance of rooted superstitions. Stern Jehovah frowns upon the unorthodox union-their offspring is taken in death, the crops fail. A dying baby is God's revenge. In the end love prevails over the code. The angry blast of the Field God is nullified, theatrically, by long-winded dialogue...
...production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel Jeans, blond as honey. The plot gyrates masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order to save her husband arraigned on a murder charge. As usual, the husband fails to understand such exquisite betrayal. He dons...
...union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...
...vingt-et-un (21), to fail to stay on a "natural...
...year. On the crest of it, Jed Harris, youthful impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...