Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film, which stars John Barrymore, is based on the 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. John S. Robertson directed the production, and Clara Beranger wrote this adaptation's screenplay or “scenario”. The story, set in late Victorian London, portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separating the dual personalities he thinks defines all humans: one good, the other evil. The film is
1886 Dutch Reformed Church split 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split The 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split, also known as Doleantie (from Latin "dolere", 'to feel sorrow') was the name of a prominent schism in the Dutch Reformed Church ("Nederlands Hervormde Kerk") which took place in 1886 and was led by the renowned minister Abraham Kuyper. The Doleantie was not the first schism in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1834 another schism, the Secession of 1834 "(Afscheiding van 1834)", had led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands "(Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk in Nederland)". In 1885 the first moves towards schism were made