Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bright Shawl. Another adaptation, this time from Hergesheimer's novel of conspiracy and abortive rebellion in the Cuba of 1850. Colorfully produced, with incidents of beauty, it yet misses genuine impressiveness -partly, perhaps, because Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...