Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth from the start assumes that Napoleon was a great man and a great actor and, in a series of sub-headed paragraphs, gives amazingly well a poignant outline of his life. The observations are keen, the style pleasing, the treatment intelligent. Considering its scope and the fact that it is written from a semimilitary standpoint, the book is an excellent piece of work, easy to lead, easy to digest...
CONSCIENCE-Prominent for the poignant performance of the hitherto unknown Lillian Foster. Returning from jail, the husband finds his wife reduced, through poverty, to prostitution...
...preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera. It is distinctly a foreign, alien expression, with a far-reaching in fluence for evil. Today, everyone knows the mental nature of cause and effect; and one cannot witness horrible scenes...
...emotions, then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls, is a much-slapped circus clown, beloved by the world only for a buffoonery which he wrings from the shattered, poignant remnant of a life known to none but himself...
WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...