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...STORY???Mary Roberts Rinehart?Farrar & Rinehart...
...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story???Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...
...dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story???a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life?becomes merely the concentration necessary for getting so many lives and deaths into the hour-and-a-quarter of a feature picture. A sermon clipping the beginning and the end of the action makes clear that...
...star of the man of destiny had begun to shoot like a comet. Epical dreams of a march to the Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story???the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
Once out of a thousand times, the crank has a story???and then he is not a crank...