Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless one or more of the doctors who saved the life of George V will eventually be honored-but not this time. The only doctor to receive a peerage last week is Sir Berkeley Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. A coincidence of the week was that three days before the honors list was published, Sir Berkeley achieved terrific notoriety and put his name in screaming headlines by lecturing on Medicine and War before the London Authors' club. On his word of honor...
Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...
...brutal were these crimes that the French press was led to believe that the long-standing tradition might be broken, whereby no woman has been guillotined in France since 1887. But kindly "Gastounet" ended by commuting all four death sentences to penal servitude for life. They will never go free. "Life imprisonment" in the U. S. often means 20 years in jail, with time off for good behavior. In France it is a sentence that means just what it says...
...cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit...
...Spieler (Pathe) is a tense picture of carnival life faithful to its background. From the time a crooked spieler goes to work for a girl-proprietor who is trying to run an honest show, the action moves ahead faster and faster through beautifully dovetailed sequences to a climax in which the spieler, armed with a tent stake, fights his way out of a battle with a mob of "rubes." Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, graceful Renee Adoree and a competent minor cast replace with simple, effective acting the sentimentality common to this type of picture. Best shot: the quiet, sinister...