Word: wanderlied
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...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 a ball for the Allied forces at Brussels, but when a courier gallops up with word that Napoleon has marched his myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest...
...Wandering Jew (Twickenham) presents the cavernous countenance of Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with...
Searching for signs of hope, Dr. Schweitzer concluded that there is no other remedy for present-day ills than the ethics of Jesus which, reduced to simplest terms, is "reverence for all life." Said he: "We wander in darkness now, but one with another we all have the conviction that we are advancing to the light...
...readers will wander through hopeless mazes before they find another such straightforward stretch. More typical is the "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia": "The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. Bargaining is something and there is not that success. The intention is what if application has that accident results are reappearing. They did not darken. That was not an adulteration...
...beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse, and at last brings tragedy. Finally, Mr. Wiggs does wander home, but not from the Klondike, not with a pot of gold, but with exactly enough to pay the 25-dollar mortgage. And with his appearance the domestic felicity of Mrs. Wiggs, her serenity yet undisturbed by emotions of a radical or communistic nature, becomes complete...