Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan--"The Mad Genius", John Barrymore's latest with a strong supporting cast...
...Mad Genius (Warner) differs from Svengali in the fact that John Barrymore's protégé is this time a dancer instead of a singer and a young man instead of a young woman. Barrymore also uses a slightly different make-up-a thin mustache, straggling goatee and a clamp on his left leg, to make him clubfooted. Unable to be a dancer himself, he becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald...
...Bolshevism Run Mad," Bitterest in the fight was Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who has "retired from the House of Commons," was not campaigning last week, but poured the bile and venom of his scorn gratuitously on the head of his former friend & colleague Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, now leader of the Labor Party...
...taxpayers are to shoulder the losses. Banks and financial houses are to be placed under national ownership and control. Your investments are to be ordered by some board, and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad...
...Mad, morbid though it may be, The Father is an impressive play, intelligently acted. Most Manhattan critics, objecting to Actor Loraine's violent acting, forgot the violence was Playwright Strindberg's. Manhattan playgoers, more impressed, gave the players repeated curtain calls, demanded from tired Mr. Loraine a curtain speech...