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...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...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
Married. Attilio Teruzzi, Under Secretary of State for Internal Affairs in the Mussolini Cabinet, to Lillian Lorma, U. S. singer. Il Duce presented the bride with a rich jewel case; Conductor "Tito" Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera, gave her 150 pieces of Venetian glass...
...need to hear him; they too could have said everything he was saying, could have told about the cocktails at the Union Square Hotel, two for a quarter, about the terrapin and canvasback at the New York Hotel, about Tony Pastor's and Niblo's and golden Lillian Russell, gone now. Good songs they had then?the one about "Champagne Charlie...
...Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert Burns, Peter Schuyler, Lillian Russell, William Penn, Judge Gaynor (onetime New York mayor) and many another have had cigars named in their honor...