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Many Mansions (by Jules Eckert Goodman and Eckert Goodman; produced by Many Mansions Inc.). Some bad plays, like tortoises, protect themselves by withdrawing everything-beginning, ending, and legs to stand on-under a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor plate-the Church-does not succeed altogether in fending criticism from its vulnerabilities: its stiff dialogue, thin ideas, creaking earnestness. Nevertheless, the play's carapacious subject will probably save it from instant death...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...
Knight Without Armor (London Films) exhibits Marlene Dietrich as an unkillable countess, escaping from Russia during the revolution with the aid of a British spy. When first seen, in 1913, Countess Alexandra (Dietrich) and A. J. Fotheringill (Robert Donat) are watching a horse race in England. She is the daughter of a Russian official. He is. a young traveler at home on vacation. They do not meet. By the time they encounter each other for the first time it is 1917. A. J., long imprisoned in Siberia for complicity in a Red plot, is now a member...
...Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke's ancestors were supposed to ride in full armor into Westminster Hall, fling down a gantlet and challenge to mortal combat any who doubted the right to the throne of the newly crowned King...
...steel headpiece, or morion, dates from 1575 and was worn in the state guard of Francesco de Medici, while the one of gold is a burgonet of 1550 from the Papal Guard. Both pieces represent the half century when the decoration of armor was most splendid without detracting from its defense...