Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest is frequently moving realism, always hampered by bad locution. But what you will remember is the ghostly burthen of fear and futility borne by the voices of shadowy warriors...
...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
...Philosophical Club will hold its first meeting of the academic year at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Emerson 23. A paper on the "Idea of God in Contemporary Realism," to be read by G. C. Leeclr 2G will be the subject of discussion at this meeting...
Such is the story the Bible tells with artistic realism. Carefully the National Sunday School Union substituted "tempted him to do evil" rather than give the exact words of the wife of Potiphar. Question: Does the substitution help...
...enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once...