Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nameless child. Instead of allowing the play to rush to its inevitable catastrophe from this point, Miss Vernon, under the guidance of George M. Cohan, makes it diddle with detectives, telephone calls, attempted murder, cross-examinations, till finally she puts an end to it all with a last tragic scene that recalls the promise of the first two. Shirley Warde carries off highest honors in the cast, though Chester Morris makes a sufficiently convincing cause of all the trouble. The lighting in Scene Three deserves at least honorable mention...
...higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented as well as its harshness. But, in other respects, the picture leaves little to be desired. Lars Hanson, Swedish actor, who plays opposite Lillian Gish, deserves that distinction. Scenarist Frances...
...Briand: "'We must have the courage to call things by their names. There is a duel between the president of the Chamber and the president of the Council (Premier). That there should be such a duel at this moment is tragic beyond words...
...going to explain the true situation to the country," continued M. Jaspar above an uneasy rustling from his Catholic adherents. "I ask the Chamber at a time which is singularly reminiscent of the tragic days of 1914 to give us power to prevent those of our citizens who are without consciences from continuing their odious and absurd campaign against our national currency. They think they are saving their wealth by bartering Belgian francs for a mess of golden foreign pottage. In reality they are compromising the total assets of our country...
...further contradiction to claims advanced by labor leaders that the general strike was only part of the peaceful methods for economic reconstruction adopted by the Trade Unions, Professor Abbott quoted the late Samuel Gompers to the effect that "direct action is both tragic and fantastic" and that "destroying political democracy cannot by any interpretation be called constructive or productive of permanent benefit." He continued...