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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never, since "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", have we seen Mr. Barrymore in a screen role that fitted him better than the one of Ahab Ceeley. And indeed the two roles have much in common. Ahab, through the treachery of his half-brother, loses a leg to Moby Dick, the whale, who has cost the life of more than one boat's crew. The same brother alienates Ahab's sweetheart, and makes him bitter against all mankind, and as the film unrolls, we see Ahab's character changing before our eyes much the same way as in the dual role...
There is much in this film to be praised. The whaling scenes and the inevitable typhoon are done in a manner unusual to the screen in their realism. The direction, that of Millard Webb, is not at all in evidence, which after all is the highest praise that can be accorded. The acting throughout is admirable; the Chinamen, cannibals, and maniacs that make up the wild crew of Captain Ceeley's vessel do not depend entirely upon their make-up to show how wild they are; and Dolores Castello is demurely passionate as the heroine a missionary's daughter...
Rumors. Strange rumors escaped last week from behind the Fascist censor's dark screen so carefully adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against...
Davies makes in this picture one of her occasional appearances on the screen and intensifies the impression that she is an exceptionally capable comedienne. Perhaps her grasp of emotional acting is less secure; there is so little of it in Beverly that it doesn't matter. Miss Davies plays a girl, in one of those romantic phantom kingdoms, who masquerades for her cousin the Prince...
...have just finished reading Mr. Nichol's review of the "movie"version of "Brown of Harvard", which I helped adapt for the screen and I make haste to apologize to all Harvard undergraduates for the fact that, according to Mr. Nichols, the photoplay is not in the least like Harvard as it really...