Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventuresome spirit, for dauntless courage. The world of which I am speaking is just finding itself. Torn by doubts and uncertainty, by unemployment and financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts of thousands of your followers that they, too, may follow you into the land where prejudice, greed, hatred, pride and fear are unknown-into the Kingdom of Heaven...
...certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although the part was loss...
...spark for the old fellow is gone. And even as the poet in his famous ode on immortality asks what has become of the freshness of that dream which appareled the earth so beautifully, the Vagabond wonders,--as he regrets the passing--what has become of his youthful love for a poet whom he followed at one time so zealously...
...Divine Spark" is another Gaumont-British production built on the life of a great musician, this time Vincenzo Bellini. He has the misfortune to be portrayed by Phillips Holmes, any doubts of whose utter inability to act will be dispelled as he is seen going through the throes of tender passion, man of purpose, and artistic intensity...
...tendency on the part of all the cast to ever act, there are many excellent scenes in "The Divine Spark." Bellini's best music has been well adapted, and the singing of Martha Eggerth, star of "The Unfinished Symphony", is often beautiful. The daughter of a wealthy Neapolitan, she sacrifices her love for Bellini for the sake of his career. "Italy needs geniuses," she says, and refuses to elope with him. He climbs the ladder of success, his loveliest music inspired by her memory. And when he tries to write an opera based on hate, to prove his independence...