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...elephants had only been there, many Americans thought, it would have been like a circus parade. Bits of news like these were few in the pages of space given to the Coronation, for correspondents in the position of the Grand Duchess Marie did not want to cable, as the Associated Press did, that a butcher in the East end wrote God Save the King across his shop in sausages. Many persons believe that from the point of view of the United States the press took the affair too seriously. It is true that the New York Times sent Birchall from...
Giuliano, Due de Nemours was a peace-loving Medici with pensive eyes and a stubby beard, not to be compared, however, with his potent father, Lorenzo the Magnificent. But Giuliano had his picture painted by Raphael once. That picture, once the property of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, was bought by Manhattan Stockbroker Jules Semon Bache...
Last week, four hours after Banker Bache, 75, had sailed to spend the summer in London with his daughter, wife of Theatrical Producer Gilbert Miller, Mr. Bache's lawyer summoned reporters, gave them news that within a year not only the Grand Duchess Marie but any other resident or visitor in Manhattan will be able to see Raphael's Giuliano de'Medici at almost any time. Banker Bache, for a quarter-century one of the most important art collectors in the U. S., was giving his entire collection to the public and turning over his home...
...part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...
...failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather, and a few shots later, without proper time identification, are snowed in, with the Duchess (Margaret Irving) dying from an undetermined cause. Best shot: "Luck" winning a poker hand from Oakhurst...