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...Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon...
Past citations still current: Dry Martini, Excess Baggage, The Night Watch, Kriemhild's Revenge, The Patriot, The Crowd, His Private Life...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's lovely acting in a good prairie-story; White Shadows in the South Seas: Photography and natives; While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy with a detective's badge and his own teeth; The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the Vitaphone; Kriemhild's Revenge: A sequel to Siegfried...
...according to merit (B) according to the money they are making: (A) White Shadow in the South Seas: Sharks and natives in swimming. The Night Watch: Billie Dove on the witness stand. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000?Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers, Chicago); Mother Knows Best...
...Kriemhild's Revenge, sequel to Siegfried, shown in the U. S. in 1925, tells how Siegfried's widow goes looking through a world of half-gods for someone who will avenge the murder of her husband. In settings like the metaphors of an epic poet the story moves to its climax in the hall of Attila, king of the earth, where the last of the Niebelungs sing their death-song under the burning roof. With a sound accompaniment this picture, the last made in the UFA studios before Hollywood companies bought up their talent, would be a novel...
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