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...days later beloved King Albert, Hero-Burgomaster Max of Brussels, the corps Diplomatique (with one exception), and the flower of the Belgian Army followed in solemn procession a gun carriage upon which rested a coffin within which was an urn containing ashes. The Papal Nuncio and Cardinal van Roey and the Belgian Army's Catholic chaplains kept their skirts clear of the funeral. The ashes were those of Lieut.- General Bernheim, during the War Belgian generalissimo, cremated by his own express command...
...thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
...Golden Hour of the Little Flower; Shrine of the Little Flower (St. Therese), of Detroit; Columbia, 17 stations...
...Goldwyn). The combined talents of Authors Louis Bromfield and Sidney Howard, both raucously advertised as Pulitzer Prizewinners, have produced a story which will make cinema seers feel content that winners of the Nobel and other awards have not so far been hired to compose operettas. It is about a flower girl who, masquerading as a notorious cabaret entertainer, wins the love of John Boles. The singer (Lilyan Tashman) has been exiled by the police from Budapest to the familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl is wooed...
...eroticism so exquisite and distinguished. Better Renoir and Matisse, they thought, and the more primary Freudian reactions of such masters than a painter so intent on capturing and passing on to us the heat, the fever, almost the libido, of a colored fabric, a seated girl or a garden flower...