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...Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...
...scene Nazis march triumphant under Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to celebrate Hitler's rise to Chancellor. While this closing episode was being filmed excited Storm Troopers beat up a U. S. spectator who failed to salute the Nazi banner. To salute it as it flashed on the screen up popped last week's entire audience, including former Crown Prince Wilhelm...
...Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright...
...President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests for the chorus. The picture cost $1,100,000. The result is an extraordinary rigmarole containing everything from chariot races to a torch song by Ruth Etting...
...After the 1917 revolution he returned to Russia from a U. S. lecture tour, was driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...