Word: graumont
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...Platonic marriage need not be gone into; suffice it to say that everything is quite mature, quite credible. What should be said is that Will Hays was very happily asleep when the matter of the sacred institution of marriage, and other matters, arose, which counters the objection that Graumont's is always so much more sterile than the Rialto...
...these columns to attempt anything so hollowly pretentious as a "criticism" of Graumont's superb film, "Power." Suffice it to say that this picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed...
...forthcoming representation of "Othello," at the Odeon Theatre in Paris. The version to be performed is not the fine poetical version of M. Aicard, in a fragment of which Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt played Desdemona at the Theatre Francais four years ago, but a new translation by M. de Graumont, which is said to follow the poet's text with considerable fidelity. This will make at least four versions of this tragedy which have been seen on the French stage since that of Duci's, in which Frederick Lamaitre played the Moor, in London, some fifty years since. In this, Iago...
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