Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious word about Miss Dempster yet. She escaped from a Mary Pickford tendency to fight in the streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls on and off the screen comparatively few times...
...Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same fanciful way. Evreinov, the musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov, can still play fantastically upon every mood. Like the Spanish dramatist, Benavente, he had followed the circus in his youth and still knows how to give his audience circuses as well as bread. The slendor boy who at the age of thirteen had performed as an equillbrist...
...sees it and as society lives it, and Paris, the cosmopolis. Having a large canvas, he was not as economical as he might have been. He spent 500 pages telling a story that might have been more effectively set down in 400, and could have been written by a master in 300. It is a good story, not because it is much of a story but because the characters act convincinely, from the heroine who begins chilly and learns to be cold, to her son, ten minutes old, "a lusty, tomato-colored child, which appeared...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Final performances of the California farm story in which the Italian master picked out a wife in a San Francisco spaghetti joint and married her by mail...
THREE FARMS-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam's ($1.50). Farming in Rhodesia-an English master ruling in solitude over a horde of native "boys" with others of his kind living some miles away for his only neighbors. To such a farm-master, who is her husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband...