Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps Messrs. Woollcott and Williams too) seemed to indicate. It is the theme of The Fatal Curiosity, by George Lillo, first acted in London in 1736. The plot is the same as in the later versions. The son returns, meaning to surprise his parents; they murder him, discovering just too late who he is; the father kills his wife, then himself. The time of the play is in the reign of James I, and the plot has been traced to a pamphlet printed in 1618. The story may probably be much older. The original title under which the play...
...written one brief masterpiece, Pietro Mascagni has been a shrewd and ardent Fascist. Government authorities boosted the new opera long before it was performed, announced that Mascagni had captured ''the true spirit of Imperial Rome.'' Mascagni claimed that he had been mulling over the Nero theme for 40 years, that his enthusiasm had lately been rekindled by ''Fascist exaltation...
...absurd demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives...
...years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed...
...Jack Oakie's cockiness and Lanny Ross' voice you will enjoy "College Rhythm" in spite of the plot. As a matter of fact there is no plot according to all dicta of drama, as far as the reviewer could determine. The action hovers around unrevealed and unrequited love, a theme which is as old as the world itself...