Word: spaniard
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...complexities of the plot and the difficulty of producing harmony between the setting of Janet, the Broadway actress, and that of Don John, the dissolute old Spaniard, promise to be so exacting that there is little danger, according to Coach Silvers, of over training the actors...
...Next Corner. A young American wife (Dorothy Mackaill) whose husband (Conway Tearle) is in Argentina finds that castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether...
Madre. A doleful tale of the insufficiency of marriage is herein unfolded. The author is a Spaniard, Rafael Marti Orbera. Those whose preconceptions of Spain are inextricably confused with the crackle of castanets and the present vogue in Spanish shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite...
Francesc Cugat (Anderson Galleries), is a 29-year-old Spaniard who won fame by his series of Chicago Opera advertising posters. He shows imaginative landscapes, fantastic portrait posters of Beethoven and other " greats," and two triptychs. Zoe Beckley, famed Manhattan newspaper woman, wrote a flattering introduction to his catalogue...
...Kennaday of the Foreign Press Service, tells me that he has spent evenings with Ibanez when the fiery gentleman has outlined story after story after story-all of them good. It is a pity that there are not 48 hours in a day, and that the fertile-minded Spaniard cannot write with both hands at once...