Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthquake: "In the midst of the horrors the thing that impressed me most was the unfailing courtesy of the Japanese people, who still considered their guests first. The best illustration of this was the first night in the outskirts of Tokyo, where we herded on the lawn of a nobleman's house. No one knew who we were, but those wonderful people refused to allow any of us to sleep on the grass without some sort of covering. Where they found blankets and mats for us I cannot imagine, but we had to take them and were thankful, especially...
Albert Herter (Reinhardt Galleries) shows that he can be an effective portrait painter, as well as a flowery decorator. Portraits of a Russian nobleman, of Pilgun Yoon in the Chinese manner, and of Herbert C. Hoover are features...
Died. Count Mattachich, Austrian nobleman and former Army officer, in Paris. Twenty years ago he eloped with Princess Louise of Saxe- Coburg-und-Gotha, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, mother-in-law of the late Kaiserin's brother, Duke Ernst Günther. He was at once imprisoned on a charge of forgery; she was shut up in an asylum. Six years later, he carried out an abduction of the Princess. Thereafter, in spite of poverty and snubs, they never separated...
...story tells of a princess. Into her lonely castle comes a nobleman (Conway Tearle) in the guise of a servant?bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
Bella Donna. Pola Negri's first American picture is, except for the continuously electric Pola, just another vampire-film, deodorized as much as possible to please the censor. There's a sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy...