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...Europe. Nathan Rothschild (George Arliss), third son of Mayer Amschel, is less disreputable than his father but no less clever. Head of the London branch, he arranges to have his brothers in Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan...
...coast of Tuscany, 100 miles northwest of Rome, lies the tiny port of Orbetello. The protecting shoulder of a great mountain (from which Napoleon's Elba can be seen 40 miles out to sea) guards it from high winds. Long sand spits make the mountain look "like a great ship moored by its three ropes of sand"; more important, they make smooth as a millpond the blue lagoons lying on either side of the town. There in winter fat eels are snared for the Christmas tables of Italy. There in summer wealthy Italian families lounge. And there...
That was his first defeat. Depression strangled sales. The New York Gallery was forced to close and M. Jonas went back to Paris. Last week marked his return from Elba. Up New York Bay came M. Jonas as field commander of a $1,200,000 French syndicate formed to buy back (at Depression prices) French works of art from hard-up millionaires. In the S.S. Champlain's smoking room he explained his campaign to ship news reporters...
...Walker back in City Hall. Citizen Walker, stranded aboard the Italian Liner Rex at Gibraltar (see p. 15) exclaimed: "My political future is at stake.'' This week Tammany is to hold a nominating convention, on the eve of which "Jimmy" Walker was supposed to arrive triumphantly like Napoleon from Elba to be renamed for his old job. The Rex's breakdown cancelled this act as Citizen Walker, late as usual, sailed on the Enropa, due to arrive after the convention...
...diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia and Prussia. Nor did the Congress break up when Napoleon escaped from Elba. It stayed until shortly before Waterloo, until the last scrap of Napoleon's empire had been disposed...