Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vital, this statistic showed with finality that Soldier Primo de Rivera had failed to win the battle of Spanish post-War readjustment, though he did settle the Morocco question (by scotching Abd-El-Krim with the aid of France); did give Spain the longest period of internal peace under one Government she has enjoyed in the 20th Century; and he did put through zealously the more obvious kinds of "reforms," such as road building, which appealed to his soldier sense. Himself accustomed to military discipline since he joined the Army as a stripling of 14, he could never understand...
Seven Days Leave (Paramount). The only change besides the title which the producers have made in Sir James Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is the suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting...
Fragment of an Empire (Amkino). No picture has more intelligently shown the connection between the War and the new era in Russia than this story of how a shell-shocked soldier reclaims his life. Bearded Fedor Nikitin as Sergeant Filimonov loses his memory for four years and gets it back when he sees his wife's face at a train window. In a moment of anguish everything he had forgotten floods through his mind. He leaves the country station where he has been doing odd jobs, goes back to Moscow to take up life again. More than half the picture...
Henri-Marie Beyle, who called himself, among other pseudonyms, Baron de Stendhal-sensualist, cynic, soldier, exile, diplomat, author-wrote his first novel at 44 and said of himself: "Je serai compris ners 1900 [I shall be understood about...
When not engrossed in the performance of these, he gets off some well-timed bits of acting. The scene most worthy of mention is the superbly theatrical moment between Lowell Sherman as the Bavarian Emperor and Barrymore, as the Soldier of Fortune, just before the battle. Sherman, an ever-popular villain does his few bits to perfection as usual. Marion Nixon looks much better in a white wig than otherwise, but is mostly rather ineffectual. The historical background and supporting casts are worked out well. All in all, the picture is worth a long car-ride...