Sins of the Fathers. Actors who are small and thin seldom make suffering effective. No grandeur, one feels, is present in the woe that crushes small fry. But when a fellow as broad and thick as Emil Jannings, with prominent eyes from which huge tears ooze slowly, when such a fellow writhes in prison, ruined in business, betrayed by his wife, guilty of poisoning his son, one understands that only a sorrow truly vast could cause so strong a neck to bow.
Father Jannings' misfortunes are due to the Volstead Act which has...
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