Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wonder of Women (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). By thoughtful creation of character this film avoids being a restatement of one of the standard generalities about people with artistic temperament. It is adapted from Sudermann's The Wife of Stephen Tromholt and the outlines of the original story, even its tragic ending, have been intelligently adhered to. Lewis Stone is the composer who marries a poor widow with three children and who sticks to her in spite of his attraction to a younger woman. Peggy Wood is his wife. Stone leaves her once, then comes home, acknowledges his responsibility. Five years later...
Louis Meyer of Los Angeles, victor in 1928, was second. His fellow townsman, Bill Spence, described a tragic arc out of his Duesenberg when it slithered into a wall. His was the first Indianapolis fatality since the 1919 race...
Chicago last week after eastern road tryouts was a play adapted by John M. Kirkland from the tale, long told in U. S. folksong, of the tragic triangle of Frankie, Johnnie and Nellie Bly. Composed of a series of simple quatrains, the song has been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie...
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified...
...tragic figure, seemingly forgotten by all concerned, including correspondents, was Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela. whom the rebels 70 days ago proclaimed "President of Mexico." Ruined and ignored, poor Don Gilberto must rue the day last December when he resigned his honorable post of Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James's and listened to the sword- handy gentlemen who swore they would make him President...