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Commodore Cunningham was the man everyone had expected would command the Leviathan when, refurbished after her War service, she was recommissioned in 1923. As a lieutenant commander in the Navy during the War, Commodore Cunningham had navigated the Leviathan as a troopship after she was seized from Germany and her name, the Vaterland, erased...
...more idea of being offered the command of the Leviathan that day than a child," said Mr. Hartley. "When we were chatting after the meal one of the officials said to me, 'How would you like to have command of the Leviathan?' I replied, 'Stop your kidding.' To my sur- prise, he said, 'I am not kidding. We want a captain for the Leviathan, and if you would like to have the ship, come round to the Shipping Board offices at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...shortly after 5 o'clock that day I left the building with my appointment to take command of the Leviathan in my pocket. Commodore Cunningham, "Handsome Harry" to his colleagues and a charming memory to ladies and gentlemen who have sat at his table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...
...Last Command (Emil Jannings) is the story of a cousin to the late Russian Tsar who, after the fume and flames of the revolution,, found his way to the dreary door-steppes of a Hollywood studio...
Despite the romantic frenzy of this tragedy, whose faults are far more obvious in synopsis than in cinematic entirety, The Last Command is indubitably a powerful film. Clumsy-faced, blacksmith-muscled, thick-fingered Emil Jannings, the thoroughly unhandsome hero, is the most finished, the most subtle cinemactor in the U.S. He does everything slowly; smiles break across his face like a gradual sunrise, his sorrows have accumulated intensity. In this picture, he is ably supported by lords, soldiers, peasants, and most notably by Evelyn Brent who is the heroine...