Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice...
First important picture made in six years by Director Griffith, its old-fashioned technique is surprising at first, until you begin to feel it appropriate to the subject in hand. Often the transition from one crisis in Lincoln's career to another is so abrupt as to seem superficial. In part this is because of the limitations which program-time impose on the 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...
Good shots: Lincoln dancing with his future wife at a party where Stephen Arnold Douglas is the leading stag; Lincoln called home to supper by his children just as he is receiving the presidential nomination in his Springfield law-office; Lincoln telling his cabinet he is going to take Fort Sumter; Lincoln walking in the White House halls in his stocking feet because he has insomnia; a long line of telegraphers getting despatches from the fighting line; General Philip Henry Sheridan and his staff in their wild gallop to reorganize their broken army cutting, in a flash of steel...
...Daily News staff: "She is the Spring Song by Sousa's Band. . . . She is as bouncing, effervescent, indomitable, cyclonic, ululating and incredible as her literary style. . . . There is a high wind about Amy that blows your hat off." Her successor is Lloyd Lewis, author of Myths After Lincoln, publicity director for Balaban & Katz cinemansion chain, co-author?with the Daily New's Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith?of Chicago: The History of Its Reputation...
...degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator Nicholas Murray Butler. The 95 lines of Preacher & Author William Eleazer Barton, famed father of a famed son (Advertising Man Bruce Barton), eight times an editor, 59 times an author (The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, The Women Lincoln Loved, Acorns from an Oak Park Pulpit), put him third by another two thin lines...