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...good the War did is to show that a nation, not well armed, is powerless, and that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter and physical and chemical devils' work...
...saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Covered Wagon, Hollywood, Merry-Go-Round. These Mr. Sherwood adduces to show that the film industry can produce works of art. To each he gives a compact critical survey, a short recital of the plot and a description...
...ultra-fashionable British "society," to be put on the shelf along with Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson. For instance, there is one sketch, about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple and sincere way. But at length he accepted a barony, excusing...
Yolanda. Marion Davies follows her first spectacular picture, When Knighthood Was in Flower, with a cinema out of the same wardrobe. It is. a medieval tale, highly costumed -a Princess of Burgundy, her cruel father, the half-wit son of the French King. Miss Davies manages two roles. She weeps artistically over a handsome suitor, but the story leaves you calm. Despite great pictorial beauty and a squad of villains, the picture has no drive. It is a gorgeous military parade, with armies in armor and battlements for lighter relief...
...Lauder's reputation rests not alone on his position as an entertainer and a singer, for he is a lecturer of equal ability. In war-time, his work in raising funds for the relief of wounded soldiers and in maintaining the morale of his fellow countrymen brought him his knighthood and his greatest fame...