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...Triumph of the Rat. U. S. cinema producers-content for nine-tenths of the year with dispensing sentimental froth and such subtitles as: "Morning came, but the heart of the beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically...
...opponents, Dr. Robertson, Independent, called back: "Professional character assassins . . . social pariahs who prey like ghouls upon the weaknesses of mankind . . . filthy parasites." Fred Lundin, onetime crony and mentor of Mr. Thompson, now backing Dr. Robertson said: "My only answer to Thompson for calling me a rat and his other vile and untruthful references is that for a period of eight years he lived most of the time at this rat's house and was willing and eager to gnaw at this rat's table...
Some who heard Mr. Gerard last week may have wondered why he chose to utter even the most guarded praise of Wilhelm, who, in 1914-18, was introduced to the U. S. as a rat-faced youth, leering synthesis of cowardice and cruelty. They forgot that Ambassador Gerard looked occasionally for several years upon the actual face of Crown Prince Wilhelm. What does he look like anyway...
...onetime Crown Prince after the War, as "a good fellow, very popular with the people, brave and personable." Something like this may have been in Mr. Gerard's mind last week when he called Wilhelm "most shamefully maligned." But to Allied peoples "The Crown Prince" will always be rat-faced', and probably for long detestable...
Married. George Campbell Carson, 55, "Desert Rat," who successfully fought for $20,000,000 in royalties on a smelting machine patent; to four-times-married Mrs. Hersee M. Gross, who said she had now found her "dream man"; in San Francisco...