Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
...Gilbert Symphonic Piece Strauss "Don Juan", Tone-poem Respighi: Symphonic Poem, "Pini Di Roma...
Died. Mrs. Gilbert B. Mathewson, 70, mother of the late Christopher Mathewson, famed baseball pitcher. She was president of the local W. C. T. U. in the village of Factoryville, Pa.; at Factoryville...
...first incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, established last spring by Mr. C. Chauncey Stillman '98, will be Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University, one of the world's foremost classical scholars, famous for his translations of Greek poetry into English rhyming verse. The noted English man of letters will come to the University next fall and will be in residence in Cambridge until Christmas...
Majestic--"The Big Parade", with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, at 8.15: Shaw may be diverting, Coward may fascinate you, but it remains for "The Big Parade" alone to cut deep into your emotions...