Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Love and Learn. Chilling, blonde, Esther Ralston maintains her clotheshorse position in the records of Paramount in this odd little piece wherein her efforts are aimed at the prevention of a parental separation. By plunging, in her straight eight, through the front of the police station, the young lady manages to get to jail, there overhears the details of a conspiracy to drag the young and charming judge who sentenced her into a badger-game.* She goes to his room, prevents compromise, reveals the plot, wins love. A divorce is prevented, her adventures having kept father and mother together...
...ican Congress, are these words, "A scarcely disguised rebuke to the suspicion-fomenting lie-circulating Hearst press." I am no friend of that slavering, slobbering, unintellectual and excuseless vulgarity known as the Hearst Press. But I hardly think President Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration's foreign policies. No Presi- dent in many a day has had the almost unshakable support...
...emerges her vague urge for fulfillment will be realized. For Denise, however, it is never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn. Then Horace, in spite of the fact that he is opposed to Catholicism, shows an odd streak of under- standing by having the moribund infant baptised according to the Roman ritual in order that it may be immortalized...
...carries the play along with a finesse and verve which cannot help to instill enthusiasm even into a Boston audience. Nor is she ill supported. Richie Ling as Fabius Maximus portrays the typical hundred percent patriot with both feet planted with all the weight of his 200 odd pounds firmly on the ground. The silent thoughtful rather introspective Hannibal is perfectly presented by Philip Merivale. And as much might be said for almost all the rest of the cast. In fact so much has been said about "The Road to Rome" already, that little remains but to remark that...
...dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph on a Pessimist'' is a flippant quatrain: I'm Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd, I've lived without a dame From youth-time on; and would to God My dad had done the same...