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...Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people...
...leisurely, Frenchified version of a Cecil B. deMille luxury film, which gives girlishly graceful Danielle Darrieux, in the title role, opportunity to be the intimate of still another European prince. In Mayerling, she was the mistress of Austrian Archduke Rudolf. In Katia she is the morganatic wife of Russian Emperor Alexander...
John Loder, who has appeared in U. S., British and German films, plays for the first time in a French picture. When British Cinemactor Loder asked his friend, the Duke of Windsor, what he thought of his performance as Emperor Alexander II, ex-King-Emperor Edward VIII said: "Just like one of the boys...
...Diet, Japan's pretense at party-system democratic government which ever since the bloody "Young Officers' " revolution of 1932 has accomplished precisely nothing, convened in Tokyo. His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito read a classical rescript of welcome. Then, to everyone's surprise, 240 of the 466 members of the lower house of the Diet presented a resolution condemning the Cabinet of indecisive Premier Nobuyuki Abe, and asked it to resign. Then the Diet adjourned until...
Premier Abe nervously hurried around to talk with the Emperor and the Grand Keeper of the Imperial Seals. Afterwards Wilfrid Fleisher reported: "The Cabinet apparently has decided to carry on. ... [but] it is believed that the days of the Government are numbered and its downfall is looked for before the Diet reconvenes...