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...liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes." Bomber Frolenko spent 24 years at hard labor and in exile before he escaped in the uprisings of 1905. At 84 he is robust and hearty, talks incessantly of his exploit. "I was one of the principal organizers of the whole undertaking [against Alexander II]" boasted Assassin...
...comment on the dialog; 3) to tell the audience what has happened offstage. As in the play the first kind gives a gathering dramatic effect, the other two are nuisances. These are recorded on the sound track by a double exposure process, the characters meanwhile standing immobile and expressionless facing each other. This gives a recurrent trance effect as though an offstage ventriloquist were at work. Selfconscious, Director Robert Z. Leonard hurried the soliloquies, giving them a furtive quality. The Hollywood audience giggled...
...Alexander's eye witness description of the death of Tsar Alexander II, mangled by a nihilist's bomb. "The Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight, his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes. Not a detail of this scene could ever be forgotten by those who witnessed it. I am the only one left, all he others are dead, nine having been shot by the Bolsheviks 37 years later...
...working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
...Left-Centre and Left. Enemies of the Foreign Minister professed to know then, for a certainty, that he had been beaten, and this may have influenced later votes. There was all the way from B to K to go yet. M. Briand as he voted glanced up expressionless at M. Doumer, and he expressionless looked down. After B, then C, then D-for-Doumer who jerkily leaned forward and voted, cheered by the whole Right-Centre, Right and a sprinkling of others. Tediously the vote went on & on. When it was over, 45 minutes more were taken to count...