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...historical play in the grand manner. Its dramatis personae includes George & Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Senator Roberts, Count Talleyrand, Philip Schuyler, John Jay and Betsy Hamilton, in addition to the first Secretary of the Treasury who is impersonated by no less a personage than George Arliss. Distending his nostrils and speaking in the scrupulous accents which last year got him a gold medal for "diction." Cinemactor Arliss, who was also co-author of the play on which the cinema was based, revels in the intrigues, political and amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill...
...cajole him into misbehavior. Hamilton is cajoled but he survives the scandal. He even preserves the loyalty of his wife by placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have...
...below), Jack L. Warner, Warner Bros, vice president in charge of production, announced that Warner Bros, had established a new studio at Teddington, Middlesex, England and planned to make 15 English and twelve French pictures there in the next year. Definitely scheduled for the Teddington Studio was George Arliss' next picture...
...impersonation of a woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant, meanders about at a fancy dress party in a Colonial costume and a wig which makes him look like George Arliss out of focus...
Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...