Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found a woman, Mile. Falconetti, whose face was what he looked for, and whose talent directed as well as fulfilled his own "directing...
...regards his contemporaries in college Williams feels that in almost every case it was possible to pick out those whose talent would bring them fame in their particular field of art. These were not necessarily those whose execution was most perfected...
...Grove never becomes sentimental--his early life as a bored cynic among the petty literati of European salons precludes sentimentality. His excellent and expensive academic education gives him a background and a sense of proportion and combines with his very real talent as a writer to give us a unique document...
Baclanova's foreign accent adds a certain bizarre quality which is a distinct addition to production. Her acting is not of the best calibre and yet she leaves a distinct impression of talent...
...just the kind of pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many...