The Price of Applause
- 1918
- 50m
At the outbreak of World War I, Karl le Barron, an attention-craving Greenwich Village poet of German heritage, declares himself a German sympathizer merely to gain notoriety. With the sinki... Read allAt the outbreak of World War I, Karl le Barron, an attention-craving Greenwich Village poet of German heritage, declares himself a German sympathizer merely to gain notoriety. With the sinking of the Lusitania, however, his position becomes untenable, and he is soon a patriotic A... Read allAt the outbreak of World War I, Karl le Barron, an attention-craving Greenwich Village poet of German heritage, declares himself a German sympathizer merely to gain notoriety. With the sinking of the Lusitania, however, his position becomes untenable, and he is soon a patriotic American, claiming that he will fight for the U.S. in France. A coward at heart, Karl is ho... Read all