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...David Leizer, and bestows upon him an inheritance of two million dollars, which he exhorts him to give away to the poor for the glory of God. David does so without reserve or discrimination, even bringing death and agony into his own family in his altruistic passion. But the effect of his gifts is to turn the people against him when his money runs out. They stone him because he cannot perform miracles. Anathema, exulting in his proven exposure of divine justice, then returns to the gates of Heaven to demand an explanation. He refuses to tell Anathema anything more...
...Safe Outlet for Discontent and Crimes of Passion...
...Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
...Some of it is gripping, but it is smothered under an enormous mass of rubbish. Where the Pavement Ends. Alice Terry and Ramon Navarro help make this a good picture. Rex Ingram's direction does make it an extraordinary one. The story, from John Russell's The Passion Vine, is of the daughter of a South Sea missionary, starving for love. For want of anything better, she becomes involved with a young native chieftain and starts to elope with him. He carries her down a waterfall-a thrilling scene. At the bottom, they find that the boats they...
Married. Martha Veit (Martha of the Oberammergau Passion Play) to a Hamburg merchant named Moeller. The fact that she married outside her own town was resented in Oberammergau...