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...Testament account of the crucifixion. In Walter Hampden, innately a scholar and a gentleman, it is difficult to see a tigerish outlaw of harsh Jerusalem. Yet there he is, leaping to good, plunging into evil, denying the gods, always thinking of them, a strange duality of ruthless passion and grand sacrifice. He breaks a fellow thief's legs, cuts off the hand of another, supposedly traitorous. To atone for his cruelty, he sacrifices himself to save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau. It is all deeply sincere, beautifully...
...little lady back in Heidleberg is based on the fact that she's blond. At the very end, the King smiles resignedly at the debutante princess after failing to kiss Kathie. There's the real tragedy. . . Fortunately, very amusing comedy is alternated with those strenuous and unnerving bursts of passion and the whole is carried along by music of exceptional charm. If American colleges could have beer-rallies and bellow tunes like the rousing Drinking Song, it would be worth it to give up the pose of indifference...
...woman Justice henpecks Mr. Hodge, makes him scrub, wash dishes. Hence, naturally, an unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife in trousers ably supports laconic, "stagey" Mr. Hodge...
...close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving...
...international funds or private initiative, swelled the ranks of young America. Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) centred some of its attention upon a swart, stocky freshman whose name had a familiar ring and reminded them of something. He was Anton Lang Jr., son of the famed Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria. Sacrilegious smart-alecks were not long in coining his nickname...