Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Menjou's epigrams in pantomime have found expression in scenarios plotted by Ernest Vajda and directed by Frank Tuttle. Deft productions, each containing the same ingredients of wit and social charm, have followed each other like a string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips...
...black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived and buried her daughter. It was Meresankh Ill's tomb that Dr. Reisner's party recently discovered. Pictures and inscriptions therein related...
...number of sharp prods that Mr. Huxley can get in at things like art, science, and theology in his process of dissection is amazing and thoroughly delightful. The old nobleman who seeks to find God in his grotesque experiments with lizards is typical of the men Mr. Huxley finds in the learned pursuits. The four hundred pages of the book are four hundred pages, but they are readable enough...
...emotional crisis occurs when he falls in love with his little ward, only to learn that she loves Luigi, nobleman. The clown refuses to accept the sacrifice of affection which is proffered him by his lady. Instead, he kills himself by sliding down a wire. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," he cries before his suicide...
...Blue Danube. A nobleman refuses to marry a rich brewer's daughter, while he woos a poor innkeeper's daughter (Leatrice Joy), while an unloved hunchback (Joseph Schildkraut) stabs himself, while the captions say over & over: "Always remember that as long as the Danube flows, I shall love you." Nicely filmed and dull...