Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer came a story, of the final dialog, last week, between Mr. Doty (known in the Legion as Gilbert Clare) and his commander, Colonel Rollet, at Sidi-bel-Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...
Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers rule Germany through S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General for Reparations] and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli [Papal Nuncio to Germany] and the Republic's head makes no use of his authority...
...Woman and Sin. Under this unpretentious title, John Gilbert, in the role of a cub-reporter, pursues Sin as ably impersonated by Jeanne Eagels. The climax of his pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert...
March 4 "Brain Disorders from the Surgical Standpoint". Dr. Gilbert Horray...
These moments belong mostly to Swedish Greta Garbo whose beauty infuses the picture with a cold white glow; John Gilbert as Vronsky is too frequently exposed to a highly approximate lens, he is too willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his performance in The Big Parade. But his inadequacies are minor and partly made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied...