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...extremely unfortunate that this picture at the University Theatre presents such a one-sided view of Amazons; such a terribly glittering twentieth-century burlesque of an old fable which had its really tender and artistic sides. Modern society views the overwhelming dominance of women in this story of Hippolyta and her court, or in the play of Lysistrata, as unnatural to the point of ridiculousness, and so in the "Warrior's Husband" we have a ridiculous farce, bubbling with mirth and Broadway wit, but none the less, reminiscent of an Elk's pageant in a small town...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
...Warrior's Husband (Fox-Lasky) is a farce about the Amazons, somewhat in the manner popularized by John Erskine. It shows them happily inhabiting a country where the men-mostly effeminate or superannuated-have the social position usually ascribed to ladies in the age of Victoria. Handsome young Antiope (Elissa Landi), assistant general of the Amazon army, is incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea...
...production for Fox by Jesse Louis Lasky, longtime Paramount- Publix vice president, has some of the qualities which distinguished his first, Zoo in Budapest. It is beautifully mounted, magnificently photographed and handled with more taste than the stage version from which it was adapted by Ralph Spence. Typical shot: Amazon troops saluting Hippolyta with a gesture calling attention to their most celebrated physical characteristic...