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...George Arliss are holding forth at the Metropolitan this week in a polished performance revolving around the problems of a royal marriage. The production finds Arliss quite at home in a part as well suited to his enduring capabilities as "Disraeli" and "The Millionaire...
Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...
With his voluntary abdication from a mythical throne in Central Europe, Arliss is forced with either remaining faithful to his queen or returning to the wife he left in order to be king. Off hand, it looks like a set-up for the girl of his youth, but she's changed, you see, and then with no place to worry about, the queen begins to develop a new personality. It's an interesting problem in human nature to which Arliss provides the most satisfactory kind of solution...
University--"A Successful Calamity." George Arliss as financier who wins back the affection of his family by pretending to be poor. Splendid for the children...
...impossible to raise the standard of a poor picture by means of the reputation of a great actor without reducing that reputation to a corresponding degree in the process. If Warner Brothers, incorporated recognizes that fact, and comes to the realization that the strength of Arliss' personality transcends limitations of appearance and manner, a few more productions like "Disraeli" might almost be expected to appear in the future...