Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Rothschild (Twentieth Century) begins with old Mayer Amschel Rothschild (George Arliss, in whiskers and skullcap) as a wheedling Frankfort moneybroker. The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat. When the tax-collector comes down Jew Street, stingy old Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells...
...Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When next seen. Nathan Rothschild is at court with his wife, wondering on which knee to kneel while being knighted. His daughter Julie is engaged to marry Captain Fitzroy and the chains...
...lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely and instantly out of his most famed role. His hauteur, his bandy-legged walk, his hawk nose and his sloping shoulders suit a proud, gererous, clever banker even better than they...
...night stands. President Taft used to say that after he went to a play the first thing he asked himself was whether it was as good as Disraeli. When Arliss hurt his hand and had to do all his business with one arm, there arose a legend that Disraeli had paralysis. Compared to Disraeli, The Green Goddess was a failure; Arliss played it for only three years. Old English in which skinny Arliss was a hard-drinking, robust old Tory, was his greatest financial success on the stage. In Hollywood, George Arliss is an extraordinary personage. He stops work every...
...Henry the Eighth," this week's full course at the University, has chosen to concentrate its attention on Henry as a husband; it possesses none of the political flavour of Mr. Arliss' Disraeli. There are, of course, occasional parentheses on foreign policy, but they are pretty half-hearted parentheses, and Mr. Laughton feels with the audience that he had better get on to his business. Each of the six queens is dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither...