Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much talk in the picture and both principals are ludicrously miscast. These are the most serious roles Farrell & Gaynor have ever tried. The results should prove to anyone's satisfaction that the only thing they can do on the screen is what they made their reputation for-poetic comedy-dramas of young love. Most gratifying shot: exposure of the villain as a detective in the service of Farrell's rich father...
...Right to Love (Paramount). In spite of the sincere and energetic attempts of Director Richard Wallace, Ruth Chatterton and a brilliant cast to make this picture command respect for its poetic content, the most interesting thing about it remains the technical perfection which it displays. Ruth Chatterton at 18 and Ruth Chatterton at 45 not only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch...
...action is stimulated by a problem in poetic justice. A lovely young lady, Mary, that is, Madge Kennedy, is deserted by a worthless husband and Michael, Terence Neill, comes upon her in the British Museum. Of course they fall in love and are subsequently married on the assumption that Husband number one is dead. This is back in 1905 and '06. As every one expects, the first husband turns up, but this is in 1919 after a son has arrived to complicate matters. A weak heart fortunately carries off the deserter during a slight scuffie with Michael, by this time...
...Virgil laboring under the burden of a dead language and writing of things long since forgotten has generally been dismissed from modern thought, yet he left behind him one of the world's greatest epics, he wrote learnedly on bee keeping or politics, and he was a master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born. In a few weeks this perfunctory homage will be laid away for another thousand years. The value of this sporadic praise to Virgil is questionable. The real merit of the poet...
...Waldo Frank. Editor Frank explains his selections, places them historically, with a confusing foreword and clearer prefatory notes. After his explanations are read and forgotten the stories may speak for themselves, which they do in strenuous voices. Their unifying characteristic is a certain incoherence, which, in addition to violently poetic phrasing, makes it often difficult to tell what is happening. But though their literary quality fluctuates, their dramatic intensity seldom falters...