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...producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since there is nothing in public life today remotely approaching the Lincoln legend, .perhaps Director Griffith's judgment was as good from the patriotic as from the financial point of view. Moreover, perhaps the schoolbook Lincoln is essentially...
...delicate reticence of Miss Gish's acting. Not since 1913 has Cinemactress Gish been on Broadway. At that time she inhabited the same boarding house as Cinemactress Mary Pickford, who got her a small part in David Belasco's A Good Little Devil. Soon afterward David Wark Griffith took her in charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen is her first audible cinema, One Romantic Night, adapted from Playwright...
...fall of the French Empire is tucked into this scenario to give spice to the ardors and difficulties of 18th Century love. A little effort has been made and a good deal of money spent to present a moving picture in the manner of the historical stories that David Wark Griffith directed so successfully many years ago. But everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace...
...whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation but of the same breadth of conception. Author Dos Passos' book sets a new mark for U. S. novelists to shoot...
...game for the Crimson. HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE 1933 Watts, Beardsell, Mays, Wadsworth, l.w. r.w., Plourde, Peuley Martin, Gilmore, Sprague, Butler, c. c., Croke, Woobridge Frothingham, Jewell, Foster, Howland, r.w. l.w., McFarland, Parkinson McGregor, Gleason, Chase, l.d. r.d., Houly, Michaude Hallowell, Devens, r.d. l.d., Colburn, Wendelin Hale, Wendell, g. 4., Wark...