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The Witch Of Salem tells of those fearsome days in stern Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, when religious fervor sometimes mounted to fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians...
"Pavel the Daredevil" it was, who, at 26, big, jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off...
Director King Vidor at times achieves heights: the love scene in a boat gliding under a veil of weeping willow leaves; the tantalizing suspense as the King's eccentric moods alternately delay and hasten his procession to the scene of execution; the camera angles at which the "Stunts" are...
Tosca will open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest...
"Just back of them [some bronzes], is the delicious "Humoresque" by Harriet Frishmuth, N. A. This should never be overlooked. Miss Frishmuth, ranking in the first rank of American women sculptors, is widely represented in the collection, and also is in Atlanta for the exhibition. Nine or ten examples of...