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...seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests...
Lovers (Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry). Spanish diplomat Don Julian (Edward Martindel) lives in domestic placidity with his young wife, Teodora (Alice Terry), and his ward, Ernesto (Ramon Novarro). Busy-buzzing gossips circulate malicious lies about an affair between the young wife and the young ward. Duels result. Don Julian is run through. Ernesto avenges his death, sails far away with the maligned Teodora, to lands less suspicious. It is all simple, well-acted, not particularly engrossing...
Colonial--"Ben Hur", with Ramon Novarro and lote besides, at 8.15: Reviewed in this issue...
...After years of experimentation and mishap Metro's massive version of this favorite novel has finally been released. It reveals what seems to be more scenery and more people than in any recent spectacle. Ramon Novarro plays the title part excellently. There have been several Ben Hurs in the films before this. Unquestionably this version is the most magnificent...
...Midshipman. A phoney picture of modern U. S. life has been made at Annapolis with Ramon Novarro in the lead. In the days of its manufacture they thought that President Coolidge would hand the cinema actor his diploma. There was unrest among the politicians, and the doubtful honor fell to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The hero starts acting honestly but finally succumbs to the lure of his own uniform and overplays...