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...geography, table manners and general intelligence from the quickening Parisian atmosphere. Her affair with a handsome French nobleman was purely platonic until he went to the front; then she discovered she was no platonist. She flew to his side as he lay wounded in a hospital, but Mata Hari was there before...
This is the one about the lady spy whose espionage and counter espionage is complicated by affairs of the heart. "Stamboul Quest," concerning the exploits of Myrna Loy as a German secret service agent, bears too striking resemblance to the well-known story of Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage...
...crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge...
...Mata Hari is a brown filly owned by Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). She won five out of her eight starts last year, among them the Lassie Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a stepping stone for such Derby winners as Twenty Grand. Point against her is that she is nervous in large fields, is said to be "so inbred she is her own aunt...
...Lexington, aged 22. And to all who talked to him last week, Colonel Bradley repeated his axiom: "Fillies are no good in the spring." For physiological reasons, it is hard to keep them in training. But everyone around the stables knew that largely due to Bazaar's, Mata Hari's and Wise Daughter's successes, among 2-year-olds 1933 had been "a filly year." They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby...