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...Woman Commands (RKO-Pathe). Apollonia Chalupez (Pola Negri) has a warm soft voice and an accent which, although she is a Polish gypsy, makes her sound almost exactly like Greta Garbo. This curious little picture?a combination of comedy, romance, mid-European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history???does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King...
...final A. E. F. engagement?biggest in U.S. military history???occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...
...Lady's Morals (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This unimportant little picture has its principal appeal in the fact that it is supposed to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, "Swedish Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history???the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...
...Significance. Journalized history ?the notion that whatever is news is history???is, in the U. S., only as old as the Sullivan-Beer school. Such a news-history of Chicago, a city with a blood-red reputation hitched to a star, is a book bound to pall in its chaotic, undigested collection of facts en masse; yet it is big with significance for readers who like to generalize. Author Smith's own generalizations include the following...
...striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history???as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings, yet the overtone was unmistakable?Lady Astor home for a visit while her sister worked for "Al" Smith's election...