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Walter Connolly's first venture into cinema (The Soldier's Oath, with William Farnum, in 1917) satisfied him so little that he refused to make another picture for 15 years. Columbia offered him a contract which permits him to act in plays when he chooses. Since 1932 he has appeared in 13 pictures, established himself as one of the three or four actors of his generation capable of carrying a production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin...
...Civilized? (Raspin Productions). An aging publicist (oldtime William Farnum, 58), returns to his native land, which resembles Nazi Germany...
There his son runs a press bureau, is engaged to the daughter of the dour government censor. At a testimonial dinner, Farnum flays the government for its bigotry and intolerance. At once he and his son are ordered to leave. The press bureau is raided, the son's library stripped. Farnum buttonholes his persecutors long enough to harangue them on freedom, progress, humanity, before he is fatally hit In the head with a brick. His speech, however, seems to have led his listeners to plan a more kindly government...
Directed by Edwin Carewe. Are We Civilised? is' stuffed to dullness with words. Farnum's harangue is illustrated with scraps of old historical films, mob and battle scenes, newsreel shots, flashes of prehistoric animals. Moses. Buddha. Confucius, Caesar, Christ. Mohammed, Columbus, Washington, Napoleon, Lincoln...
...match between Charles S. Bellows '37 and Farnum was the high light of the afternoon...