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HEAD TIDE?Joseph C. Lincoln??? Appleton ($2.50). Cape...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN???Portrayed with dignity by Walter Huston (TIME, Sept...
...film's structure (it lasts only 100 minutes). The dialog by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet is less a factor in the picture's success than the masterly acting of Walter Huston in the title role. Sometimes in appearance he is a double for the familiar pictures of Lincoln???; sometimes, particularly in the earlier scenes as the backwoods lawyer without the beard and the weary dignity that characterized the President, one could not tell who he was meant to be if subordinate persons did not constantly (almost too often) call him Abe. At all times however, his acting proves that...
Relatives of public figures often avoid the public eye. As often they cannot escape it. Many a political son and grandson has had a distaste for politics?viz., the late Robert Todd Lincoln???or keeps out of it because of a feeling that the glory he might gain might be partly reflected. A case of the latter kind is Grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, able political writer on the New York Herald Tribune, who has repeatedly declined nominations in Massachusetts. Cases exactly the opposite of Grandson Lodge are Sons Theodore Roosevelt (unsuccessful) and Son Robert Marion La Follette (successful...
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