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...important things to note about John Golden's presentation of William Gillette in "Three Wise Fools" are relatively few and divertingly simple. The primary fact, of course, is that the very eminent Mr. Gillette again treads the boards with vigor and histrionic skill which have for so long made him a favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray...
...technique of the many short scenes and shots gives an insatiable and horrible rhythm to the play, a rhythm reinforced and given a high tragic emphasis by the force and poignant vigor of McLaglen's acting. The gloom of the foggy night with its almost animate compulsion of remorse and terror and repentance and the tale of revolutionary passion in the furtive Republican Army provide a grim warp along which the fate of the informer is woven with almost classical measuredness and tragic purpose. It is unfortunate that the construction is not a little more closely knit. The reason...
...whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf of Italy and against Ethiopia's French International Law Professor Gaston Jeze (TIME, Aug. 12 & Sept. 16), with such vigor that his classes had to be canceled. Then the Law Faculty had to be closed, "until the students could insure order...
Frankly, we liked the speech primarily because it was chucked full of fight and vigor. Mr. Roosevelt socked it to 'cm in the language we like to hear. We hasten to add that we have never been in sympathy with all of the President's program. We have come to think, however, that Mr. Roosevelt is making a sincere try to do something for the common people of the land...
LIKE John Gilbert. Charles Farrell, when the talkies came, failed to reveal a voice that matched the before vigor be displayed in winning silent becomes. When be made Seventh Heaven which Janet Caynor be become the darling of a million ladies. They wanted cuteness in love, they found in for a long time in Charbe Parrell and Janet Gaynor. Then Charlie did a talking picture version of Libom in a role that called for the bluff and tender in a man. His voice was too thin and without nuance...