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...wardrobe mistress (Louise Dresser), one of those quaint impoverished baronesses, adopted her, took her to Monte Carlo where the pair lived for a month on the savings of a year. In the garden of the Hotel Eden a rich young man (Charles Ray) makes love to Toni (Corinne Griffith). A marriage is arranged. Enraged by last-minute accusations of gold-digging, Toni tears off her wedding gown, runs through corridors in less & less until finally she encounters the Prime Minister in the least possible. All is explained; she dresses; she marries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Sensitive and excellent direction by E. A. Dupont, of Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

This destiny drew nigh when President Arthur Griffith of the Provisional Government found himself obliged to go to London in the summer of 1922, and appointed as his deputy in Dublin his warm personal friend William Thomas Cosgrave. On Aug. 12 President Griffith died. Ten days later the Government was further smitten by the assassination of its next most prominent leader, Michael Collins. With Griffith and Collins dead, the presidential toga descended upon Mr. Cosgrave, and he was formally elected President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mission of Thanks | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...less through a series of sedentary Saturday afternoons in the fall. It is an old story now to insist, for all the excitement and tradition that is bound up in November battles, that intramural sports should have been substituted for the word football in the two statements of Major Griffith, but it is an insistence that has gained tremendous strength at Harvard, and is finding a still precarious place at other colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN CORPORE SAND | 1/4/1928 | See Source »

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