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...Columbia's famed comedy, It Happened One Night (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934): production; direction (Frank Capra); performances (Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable); adaptation (Robert Riskin). Columbia got two more, best musical scoring and sound recording, with One Night of Love. Best original story was Manhattan Melodrama by Arthur Caesar. Best shorts were The Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax. Best song was "The Continental...
...astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...
What made the play's failure doubly pathetic was that, despite Arms and the Man (1894). Candida (1894), Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905), Getting Married (1908) and Pygmalion (1912), George Bernard Shaw had at 78 just been voted in a British newspaper poll the public's greatest bore (TIME...
...dictatorship. When he refused to sign a declaration of obedience to the Third Reich, he lost his property, including his library. His troubles with Hitlerism are very probably behind the note of passionate conviction that crops out in Le Bas' speech to Louis at the close of Another Caesar. Says...
...Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...