Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
Heywood Broun: "... Before the play ends she is stark raving mad. So instead of the problem of white and black, we have the problem of sane and insane ... In the uneven career of Eugene O'Neill I think All God's Chillun will rank as one of the down strokes...
...reason which Dr. Laird assigns in the kindness of his heart for this sinister state of affairs is that college students go mad because they live a "highly competitive intellectual existence, and any mental handicap is quickly noticed." One would like to think so. Unfortunately, however, the unprejudiced observer is driven to the conclusion that though this may be a contributing cause, the real reason is not to be found in so superficial an examination. It is also obvious that the Colgate scientist has not had the benefit of a heart to heart talk with Mr. F. H. Hoffman...
Most of the outstanding feature pictures of the year, such as D. W. Griffith's American and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad, have made much of mad horse-rides over the scenery. It causes no surprise, then, when Mary Pickford, in her latest vehicle joins the scamper academy of screendom. She plunges ahead in a wild gallop that would do credit to Paul Revere. In fact, suspicion even obtrudes that it is not always Mary herself performing the athletic equestrian feats that are an honor to the Fairbanks family...
...come-back." Zev, however, was not down and out. Up he bobbed, an easy winner from his stablemate Mad Play in the Kings County Handicap. Both horses were from the Rancocas Stable and both put up a fine performance. Mad Play, however, attracted most of the attention and horsemen considered him by all odds worthy to match hoofs with St. James, Wise Counsellor, Sarazen and the others at Pimlico...