Word: barbier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of state, is as sly and villainous as in past pictures. Sigrid Gurie, Sam Goldwyn's famed Norwegian discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper, as Marco Polo, collects coal, fireworks, and "spaghet" to introduce to Venice and he also teaches the lovely princess to kiss...
...cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer Goldwyn's Cathay is pretty thoroughly under the well-manicured thumb of Basil Rathbone, a saturnine, bewhiskered minister of state. And Producer Goldwyn...
Eleanor is on safari in the jungle country with her father (George Barbier), her mother (Hedda Hopper) and her fiance (George Meeker). A swarthy turbaned nabob named Ben Alleu Bey (C. Henry Gordon), who keeps 100 wives in,a jungle palace, marks her for 101. But he reckons without Glenn Morris...
...Barbier de Seville", the famous play by Hesumarchals with a cast including actors from the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique will be the first of the French Films given this year, showing in four performances at the Geographical Institue today and tomorrow. "Les Noces de Figaro" will be given as a companion piece at these performances...
...free offerings of the French Films Committee are to be particularly recommended to Freshmen, who may not know of their value. Last year the Committee showed a varied selection of excellent films, including the French version of "Pasteur." This week it is presenting an adaptation of Beaumarchais' "Barbier de Seville"--one of the greatest plays in any language--with a fine cast including actors from the Paris Opera and the Opera-Comique. The Committee might, with considerable justice, lay claim to a policy of showing "nothing but the best...