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...directors of the film have chosen to make it a character sketch of a remarkable person and have been surprisingly successful in attaining their goal. It would have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental change that we have over seen. He proves himself to be one of the foremost artists. it is unfortunate that he has not been cast in films of wider distribution...
...King's Horses (Paramount). This is designed for people who like uniforms and double-identity scenes and even more for those who like Carl Brisson. He plays both leading roles-King Rudolph, a monarch who leaves his throne to see life, and Carlo Rocco, an actor who substitutes for the King. There are many scenes where Brisson sings to himself, argues, drinks and laughs with himself, filling the screen in all directions with the manly Brisson dimples but managing more than in his earlier pictures to tone down the Brisson mannerisms. A situation develops well toward the middle...
...Actor Fresney was also Noah in the French version, but anyone who saw him in Noel Coward's froufrou Conversation Piece, is no longer impressed by his flawless English. What is impressive is the commanding range of humor and humility, the acute sense of timing, the rich, full-stopped voice which Actor Fresney has for years been displaying to French audiences...
...life member in the Comedie. Irked by that august organization's politics, he found in 1926 that it was harder to get out than to get in. He bought himself free with a 200,000-franc settlement. His record: more appearances in de Musset than any other actor...
...Stotesbury had two sons, James and Oliver Eaton, and a daughter Louise. Thrice married, Louise was the onetime wife of General Douglas MacArthur, is now the wife of Actor Lionel Atwill. For saying that Step-father-in-law Stotesbury pulled Republican wires to get General MacArthur promoted, the Washington Merry-Go-Round gossip column was sued for libel. The General later dropped the suit (TIME...