Colonel Satan. Booth Tarkington has turned back to the mood of his first best seller, Monsieur Beaucaire, a slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who...
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