Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...
...they love to touch, decides that they, the other offshoots of his stock, are worthless. So does David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...
...Forgotten Faces. She is sitting at a piano, playing idly. Suddenly, she stops; curls her fingers, tigress-like. There is a man standing near her. She seizes him, pulls him down on her lap, bites the back of his neck, twists a handful of his hair. Then she stands up, arches her spine, leads the man into a bedroom...
...Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...
...story of Forgotten Faces was written by Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, and by Oliver Hazard Perry Garrett, onetime crack reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both...