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...Mayer Amschel, is less disreputable than his father but no less clever. Head of the London branch, he arranges to have his brothers in Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds...
...style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest 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...
...Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized cinema version it is likely to recapture much of its old popularity. Though Spencer Tracy at times stoops to tricks for audience sympathy which the late Louis John Bartels spurned, most of the fun of the Kelly crucifixion of J. Aubrey Piper still shines through the Hollywood edition. J. Aubrey Piper attracts the admiration of Amy Fisher (Madge Evans) when, during a rescue, he is accidentally pushed into Manhattan harbor and credited with a lifesaving. He courts her in expensive cars, inspects mansions for a new residence, boasts of his railroad holdings, marries...
...construction department for the massive sets of the Stockholm Castle and various other materials. In addition to John Gilbert, who plays the part of the impetuous role of Antonio, the Spanish Ambassador with whom Christina fell in love, the cast includes Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young and C. Aubrey Smith...
...MEMORIES of a Misspent Youth" is no mere book of memoirs basking in the glory of the great. It does, to be sure, tell much about the glamorous literary London of the nineties. It gives personal reminiscences of such diverse figures as Aubrey Beardsley and H. G. Wells. It includes many amusing anecdotes about the "Headly Rod" and the "Yaller Bok", about Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and about Israel Zangwill. But all this is incidental, as it pertains to the life of Grant Richards up to his twenty-third year. And this, his early life, he recounts with modesty, with...