Word: lichtenburg
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This time, in a highly topical spoof of a lady ambassador to "the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg," she plays one of those high-up roles made to order for her lowdown ways. She observes protocol with a pratfall, practices diplomacy by outright propositioning. When she gets fired and can no longer be called Madam, a grateful Lichtenburg hangs a cross round her neck that entitles her to be known as a Dame. For romance she has Paul Lukas, a distinguished actor who manages to seem so while having no opportunity to act; and for assaulting the rafters, there are such...
...acting is very school-playish and melodramatic, with only George Saunders, in the role of the villain, a Hitler-like tyrant controlling the duchy of "Lichtenburg," showing to good advantage. He does remarkably well with cruddy material...
...Monte Cristo (United Artists). Taking up where his lively parent left off, the son of Monte Cristo (Louis Hay ward) finds Joan Bennett ensnarled in the political dirty work of the principality of Lichtenburg during the days of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...
...will be Bruce Barton, well known writer and advertising man, who will talk on "Working with Words," and G. L. Sumner, president of the G. L. Sumner Company, whose subject will be "The Problem of Relating Advertising to Merchandising," In addition there will be a short address by Bernard Lichtenburg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute...
Instead of having fortune seekers wait at the barriers of the new diamond fields near Lichtenburg, and race on foot for their claims, the government made each contestant obtain a license in the city and then rush to the field. The distance obviously necessitated automobiles...