Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemns his former flame to be hanged. She escapes to America. An index of the whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation...
...rather as a raconteur with a dash of Hazlitt and Lamb, than as a protagonist of conservatism and taut galluses that Mr. Lyons is interesting. "The Merry Wait" is one of the most finished of the stories, and the songs the Wait sings to spread Christmas cheer deserve framing or something better. This...