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...French politics, saw it in a dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take its place with Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa as one of that vast repository's prime attractions...
...Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never made a living for Berlioz and his double menage. For years he wrote magazine articles but he resented
...Blonde Venus (Paramount) presents a new excuse for Marlene Dietrich to play a bad woman. Excuse: sick husband. The picture graphs her degeneration. Excuse: mother-love. Toward the end, having left husband & child behind, she rises fast, her motto being "Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, he travels fastest who travels alone." She completes the cycle in the arms of husband & child...
...played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good art. Clearcut motivation is a prime essential to good drama; in this respect "Blonde Venus" is found sadly wanting, and therein lies its fundamental weakness...
Metropolitan--"Blende Venus." This title fits Marlene Dietrich. Poor supporting cast and asinine stage show...