Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But...
Rudolph Valentino in all his romantic glory; the Jean Hersholt, the Alan Hale, and the Wallace Beery of another day--all these familiar or renowned figures presented themselves to 700 members of the Film Society who attended the showing of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" at the New Lecture...
"The Four Horsemen" was a postwar film, produced in 1920-21 at a cost of only $640,000, but by 1925 it had grossed $4,000,000. It was the movie which established the reputation of its star, Rudolph Valentino, as the romantic figure of his age.
Sixty Glorious Years (Imperator-RKO Radio) should be an enlightening experience for U. S. cinemaddicts whose notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor...
In Garland of Bays Gwyn Jones has written a realistic historical novel about one of the most romantic Elizabethans-Robert Greene- painting the most credible picture in fiction of that incredible era, and drawing one of the most convincing portraits of a poet that contemporary novels have to offer.