Word: revolutionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mme. Sorgue, 52, "La Belle Anarchiste"; in London. Though wealthy, for 30 years she was a syndicalist and revolutionist. The police referred to her respectfully as "Mme. Trouble, Europe's most dangerous woman." In 1908 she defied royalty by remaining seated when King Carlos of Portugal entered the Lisbon International Peace Conference. Four years later she headed the women's hunger march on Tower Hill in London during the dockers' strike. She had many remarkable escapes from mobs...
...elaborate scenery and cos- tumes little need be said, for audiences have come to take all that for granted. The French Revolution scene was unusually effective, with the spot-light focussed on Perry Askan, as the young revolutionist and the dark background filled with waving torches. The human chandelier and living curtain was as an elaborate thing of the kind as we have ever seen...
That the American government should sell some of its surplus ordnance to that authority in Mexico who alone for some time has brought stability, progressive reforms, and international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable...
...message continued: "It grieves us to consider General Alvaro Obregon, undisputed revolutionist and constructive President for the past three years, has begun to lose his identity and is on the point of falling into the eternal errors in which all the leaders of Mexico have destroyed their prestige...
Scaramouche. All that remains for, Scaramouche is that it be turned into an opera. First a pleasant popular novel; then a singularly fine cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably...