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...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...
Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...
...also attracts the student of opera for two reasons. First, it is the outcome of sincere experiment in substituting a story of "real life" among the working classes for the romantic or history subjects previously in vogue. Furthermore its text, following the example of Bruneau, a great admirer of Zola and the literary cult of "realism" is written not in verse but in prose by Charpentier himself. Secondly, its scene is laid in the Montmartre quarter of Paris when that section was the native habitat of Bohemian artists, literary men and musicians, and not a stopping point for sight-seeing...
Then began a twelve-year war between Pro-and Anti-Semites. In 1897 one Major Esterhazy of the French Army was accused of having written the treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence...
...most popular drama, "Magda", in which Madame Bertha Kalich is now playing at the Plymouth, he would yet recognize it, before he had seen the first act through, as one of the dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature comes almost immediately to the mind...