Word: boudoired
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...English has it "Napoleon Intrudes," deals with a wax figure of Napoleon which comes to life and trys to intervene in the modern world. He boasts that he alone can save Europe from becoming slaven of America. "Dann greift or ein," first in a diplomatic conference, then a boudoir, a motor picture studio, a madhouse, and ultimately the museum again...
...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...
...your boudoir was a cage Still, you never lied arid simpered...
...annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures...
Inspiration (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The decadent, artificial perfume which, springing from La Dame Aux Camelias, saturated with its nostalgia the boudoir literature of four decades, is revived strongly for Greta Garbo's third talking picture. She is a studio model, mistress of many men, who falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told...