Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establish himself as America's number one patriot, movie magnate Carl Laemmle, Sr. recently put himself on record as an advocate of a national "Buy American" campaign in a statement which he describes as "of such general importance that it transcends the limits of a motion picture department...
...completely produced and acted in the Emerald Isle is chiefly interesting for its realistic portrayal of the dark days following the Easter Rebellion of 1916, when the small Irish Republican Army was doggedly twisting the British Lion's tail. A trifle Algeresque, the plot tells how a young Irish patriot (Brian O'Sullivan), suspected of being an "informer" by his mates, is ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead a counter-attack. Romance winds...
...Republican Army, play their roles with such feeling and restraint that the feeling of creaky propaganda, too apparent in many epics of social struggle, is absent. As a result the picture possesses a dignity and artistic sincerity not often met with. Mr. O'Sullivan as the young patriot and Miss O'Connor as his fiancee are outstanding. The quality of the photography and sound lag a little behind that of the acting, but these can be learned from Hollywood, while fine acting cannot...
...reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post-War formation of Yugoslavia. Patriarch Gabriel will enjoy the fruit of the Church's victory by agreement-the Government must consult him next time it plans any negotiations with the Vatican...
...granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew it was his way of helping Rome tell President Wilson they were "powerless" to control this great Italian patriot. Eventually D'Annunzio, after an Italian warship had duly popped a few projectiles into Fiume, surrendered it to his native country and strutted home to be created a Prince, almost suffocated with adulation...