Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ibanez Tells Again of the Argentine ?A Mellow Apple
...Author. Vicente Blasco Ibanez was extremely popular as a novelist in Spain some ten or fifteen years ago. It is said, however, that since that time, his reputation in Spain? especially in the Spanish literary world?has increased in inverse ratio to his increasing popularity abroad. (Translations...
...Significance. A picturesque, rapid narrative, superbly adapted for spectacular filming, especially as regards the Argentinian episodes, where Ibanez, with his flair for local color, is rather better than when attempting to describe high society in the Ouida vein. A well constructed novel, whose catchy title should lure a large public?not one-tenth-of-one-percent. of durability in its fabric, but very saleable goods for the Autumn trade...
...York Evening Post: "A characteristic dish of Blasco Ibanez's extra-special chili con carne...
...Enemies of Women. A magnificently spectacular adaptation of Ibanez' novel. Lionel Barrymore heads an excellent cast. The trouble with the picture is that there is too much of it. Some of it is gripping, but it is smothered under an enormous mass of rubbish. Where the Pavement Ends. Alice Terry and Ramon Navarro help make this a good picture. Rex Ingram's direction does make it an extraordinary one. The story, from John Russell's The Passion Vine, is of the daughter of a South Sea missionary, starving for love. For want of anything better, she becomes...