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...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
...Black Pirate" is typical of Mr. Fairbankses later manner. The scene is the Spanish Main, the time the seventeenth century, the plot, in so far as there is any, centers about the Duke of Arnaldo, whose ship is seized by pirates who cause the death of his father. The Duke escapes--Dong always escapes--and swears eternal vengeance against, the pirates. He beats the pirate captain in a fierce duel, becomes the pirate leader, captures the princess, walks the plank for crying to save her life, swims several leagues both under and on the water to effect her rescue...
...Religious Toleration in Seventeenth Century Literature," Dr. Murdeck, Harvard 3, English...
...Spanish Architecture of the later Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Professor Conant, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...Seventeenth Century Religions," Dr. Murdock, Harvard 3, English...