Word: splendors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
...Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy as well. True, the centaur was tamed at last?broken to the plow...
...their exaltation of spirit be obscured, though men make light of the aspirations for making that shone upon their path, though profiteers grow rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth living...