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(1920s) Beau Brummel
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Beau Brummel
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<p>(APRIL 7, 1924)
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<p> Beau Brummel. John Barrymore does his most telling and
versatile work since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Richard
Mansfield's famous vehicle portraying the impudent English dandy
of 1800 who would not take an insult from a rotund Prince of
Wales who did not look as prepossessing as he. Mr. Barrymore's
remarkable virtuosity enables him to look like Adonis at the
height of the Beau's career; like Ernest Torrence upon his
downfall; like Lon Chaney as the palsied wreck of the once famed
gallant. The story really has its climax at the start, and its
romance ebbs and flows uncertainly. But it is held together by
the power of Barrymore's true impersonation and startling
make-up. The dawning of a little intelligence in his eyes just
before the Beau's death is probably as remarkable a sight as was
ever recorded by the searching camera.</p>
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