Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which hinges around the life of an innocent but convicted murder, is well written and well produced. The cynosure throughout is Matt Denant in the form of Leslie Howard, the escaped convict with whom all sympathy lies--especially the sympathy of the ladies. He and the other artists portray their roles with vitality and emotion, though never fall into the melodramatic. With the exception of the second episode which is highly improbable the production is made lifelike and real. One does not wonder that the devoutly religious lady protects the convict with a lie, and that the parson is prevented...
...violently protested cinema drama Dawn, originally intended to portray the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, March 12), had its premiere without incident at Brussels, Belgium, last week, in a version from which incidents concerning Nurse Cavell had been virtually excluded. As revamped, Dawn is concerned chiefly with a lengthy contrast between the lives of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson...
...Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss A. E. White. Most of the pictures come from the region around Santa Fe. There has been an attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close of hostilities...
...collection of Japanese prints presented to the museum by Henry Osborne Taylor '78. The majority of them are by Shunsho and Hiroshige, the great print artists. Two of them, by Hiroshige, are especially worthy of note. They are long and thin, well adapted to the scenes they portray. The green and purple shading is some of the finest color works to be found in the Museum...
...will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...