Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flaming Forest (Antonio Moreno, Renee Adoree). Against a background of majestic mountains and lordly forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress Renee Adoree, menaced by a well filmed circle of fire, by a loathsome Indian scoundrel. Actor Antonio Moreno, sergeant, rides over tl hills, through the fire. The audience heartily endorses his oncoming, because Actress Adoree deserves an elegant rescue...
...surged heavily to Herminia and the school of Elinor Glyn was founded when illegitimate little Dolores turned out a begrudging, bourgeois little Dolly, insensitive to the noble thing her mother had thought she was doing. There was not a dry eye in the kingdom when, not to "atone" but heroic lly to clear the track for Dolly, a vial of suicidal poison was lugged in and "Her minia Barton, stainless soul, had ceased to exist forever...
...most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that...
Amid this apparent demonstration of loyalty by all classes 1,000 "doves of peace" (trained army carrier pigeons) were released by order of Marshal Pilsudski and wheeled in three great circles above the square. It was apparent that the Marshal retains his heroic stature in the hearts of his people. By way of showing that he is both a Pole and a true cosmopolitan he appointed last week Mlle. Teiko Kiwa, first Japanese to sing the role of Madame Butterfly at the Polish National Opera, to assist President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland in unveiling a statue of Chopin* close...
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...