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Eyes of the World (United Artists). Transcription of a novel by Harold Bell Wright, this cinema is a compound of a half-dozen violently familiar melodramas. Among the complications moves an unhappy woman who always wears a black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks...
When the Russians arrive in Senlis in 1814, Burin, now a Count, is with the army. He recovers his long-lost whip, buys the coronet, takes them back to his estate in Russia. The Burin family fortunes gradually go from bad to worse. Nicholas, the last and one of the worst Burins, saves only the whip and the coronet from the wreck of the 1917 Revolution. He fights on against the Reds, is cornered in a Caucasian village and killed. The whip is buried with him. The coronet, stolen by one of his men and sold in Moscow, is bought...
...does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast. Maw and Paw Higgins derive no poetic ecstacies from their native rocks and waves, but they are fairly well adjusted until Maw's long-lost illegitimate daughter returns and begins to yearn for her halfbrother. Events then seethe through Paw's discovery of Maw's sins to one of those scenes in which dire offstage happenings-a girl about to leap from the rocks-are described by frenzied actors who unaccountably remain...
...serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals to two Arab chiefs for aid, and finds that one of them is his long-lost brother in disguise. Moreover, the two of them are Geste's Buddy and Hank. Third coincidence: with Geste's life at stake, Otis had promised to marry a half-caste dancing girl. Honor-bound to keep his loathful promise, he is on the verge of marriage when...
...come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped in the dust, croaked over dung...