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...Lady In Ermine (Corinne Griffith). If cinema has done nothing else, it has emphasized for two decades that war is hard on ladies. Herein, for instance, an Italian grande dame finds her villa invaded by roaring Austrians. To save her good husband's life, she must surrender to the Austrian general her ___. But she does not. Director and scenarist have contrived an honorable solution, a terrible picture...
Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form...
Syncopating Sue (Corinne Griffith, Tom Moore). A beautiful, not profound blonde wants to be a real actress in Cut Price Glory. Everybody knows what a girl must put up with to succeed in the profession nowadays. These theatrical managers . . . However, Sue does become an actress, at the last minute. Eddie Murphy forsakes the boat bound for Europe, they fade out of sight floating together on Eddie's drum in the middle of the harbor. They easily fade out of memory, too, though they are not hard to look upon while aflash before...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
...MANIFEST DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). Here are history, fiction, and destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes...