Word: splendorful
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...scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...
...Italy rescued from anarchy by Fascism is the subject. Mussolini is one of the actors (a few brief shots). An entire company was transplanted to Rome for the proceedings. Somewhere in the crowd was a singularly capable cameraman who managed to recapture for the screen much of the pictorial splendor that was Rome's. Unhappily the story is a badly battered old tinier. A story that Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, Richard Bennett and Benito Mussolini can't save, must be not only old but moribund...
...Miracle. The rays of collective genius, gathered from many lands by Morris Gest and focused to a burning point of matchless beauty, have burst at last into full flame. The light of The Miracle must henceforth be the sovereign beacon for theatrical spectacle. It has bewildering splendor, apparently limitless magnificence. More important than all, it has a narrative intensity that makes it a memorable emotional experience...
...meeting was conspicuous by the lack of military splendor which has marked former conferences. It was said that not one uniformed soldier was present...
...story of love in a tomb in ancient Egypt, is famous for its triumphal march. "Toot-toot-toot", go the horns, and everyone is thrilled. Hitherto this procession has passed under one arch; in Gatti's new scenery the procession has four arches, each of dazzling splendor...