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Amid all this international finance Nathan Rothschild is not too preoccupied with his moneybags to observe a subplot which Producer Darryl Zanuck is hatching under his nose. His pretty daughter Julie (Loretta Young) has become attached to Wellington's aide. Captain Fitzroy (Robert Young). When his treatment in the matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz...
...stock exchange, The House of Rothschild is an historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon...
...promissory notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl...
...gentle, knowing honesty, made important his telling of that story-which Janet Gaynor has been unconsciously burlesquing in most of her later pictures and which even Director Borzage, except in Street Angel, had never seriously rivaled till last week. Man's Castle, with its quiet climaxes and Loretta Young's superlatively sensitive acting, is a picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce a musical comedy. Four raffish members of an itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards...
...Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market all the talent he has needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George Arliss, Constance Cummings, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Sally Blane. Tullio Carminati. Forthcoming Twentieth Century pictures: Broadway Through a Keyhole, Moulin Rouge, Advice to the Lovelorn, House of Rothschild, Gentlemen, the King!, The Great Barnum...