Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parts of Dr. Simmon's biography are very dramatic. His account of the duel between Pushkin and Baron d' Anthes, as a result of which the poet died, take on the attributes of a tragic drama. One can almost visualize a Hollywood movie version of Pushkin's life. For the life, in general, partook of melodrama: the protagonist was descended of an aristocratic family on his father's side while his mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte...
...which reminds me that some few years ago my brother Clem got ahold of a small piece of bamboo root and made the tragic mistake of planting it in the back yard of our home in Tifton...
Griffith's "The New York Hat", produced in 1912 and numbering such immortals as Mary Pickford, Lional Barrymore and Lillian Gish in its cast, will be the first film shown. Ince's. "The Fugitive", a ruthlessly tragic drama that ushered in the peculiar "Western" era, follows...
Interwoven with this history of Lloyd's and Jonathan Blake is the tragic story of Blake's love for a woman he once rescued in France, and who later turned out to be the wife of a complete fop. In the end, there is implication that Blake at last wins...
...tautened to suit the tastes of the U. S. cinema audience, it remains a dark and ferociously exciting melodrama, well worthy of comparison with Director Ford's 1935 contribution to the same subject, The Informer. Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized one of conflict between love and patriotism. Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife...