Word: sequel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years old, the proud, aristocratic parent of plump, reigning Queen Wilhelmina. She stood alone in a room of the Royal Academy in London and looked at 51 browntoned Rembrandts, part of the magnificent loan exhibition of Dutch art which has delighted London since January (TIME, Jan. 21)?sequel to the Flemish exhibition of the year before. Attendants kept a curious crowd outside locked doors. When Queen Emma heard of this she at once commanded, "Let the people in! They must not be deprived of these things...
...proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
recites Douglas Fairbanks from the sound-device as prolog to The Iron Mask (United Artists), his sequel to The Three Musketeers. The voice, like all filmed voices, creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under...
With the present volume, a sequel, the author shows himself less novelist than professor intent upon the interesting phenomenon of the second generation. He contrasts Beret, reluctant Norwegian immigrant of the earlier volume, with Beret's son Peder, who is impatient with the language, religion and customs of his mother's country. Peder insists upon lessons in English, Bible in English, chatter in English with the Irish neighbors a mile or so. down the road. Then suddenly, fearfully, Beret knows Peder loves the Irish neighbor's daughter. Beret's fury is terrific her sudden capitulation beautiful...
...Lillian Gish's lovely acting in a good prairie-story; White Shadows in the South Seas: Photography and natives; While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy with a detective's badge and his own teeth; The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the Vitaphone; Kriemhild's Revenge: A sequel to Siegfried...