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Alexander II, grandfather of the last Tzar, Nicholas II, often visited the Riviera and Switzerland with the Princess Yourievska, during the last ten years of his life, completely neglecting the Tzarina, whose Maid of Honor the Princess had been. Alexander and Catherine had three children before he married her, only six weeks after his legal consort died. The daughter who is being approached by journalist Markov is known as Princess Yourievska in London, where she has attracted attention through her vocal concerts...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...Rustle of Silk. Better than average acting is dissipated in the weakly wandering film from Cosmo Hamilton's novel. Betty Compson, Conway Tearle, Anna Nilsson, and Cyril Chadwick are asked to convince the customers that a girl will become a lady's maid simply to bask in the presence of her beloved-the lady's husband. Their love fuses. Finally, the hero becomes Prime Minister. There are flashbacks of Watteau shepherdesses and a few shootings. Out of the conglomerate mass it is possible that there are two or three selected bits which will appeal to everyone. Possibly...
Another was the quartet singing of the walters--a little touch which is at present rather unusual in musical comedy, but none the less pleasant when found there. As comedians, Florence Hope as the maid, Florence Morrison as Mrs. Thompson of Mrs. Thompson's boarding house, and Ted McNamara as the bellhop, easily passed the qualifying round...
Geraldine Farrar: " One Helen Swanson is suing me for $5,000. She used to be my maid, and she asserts that she contracted eye trouble from wiping her face on a towel which had been used on my Pekinese after its bath...