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...actuality, Cinemactor Jannings was no cousin of the Tsar before he appeared upon the screen. He was a member of famed Max Reinhardt's theatrical troupe, played Shakespearean repertory as now presented in Manhattan. He was persuaded to appear in the cinema by famed director Ernst Lubitsch, a onetime stock-company companion, then with a German film company. He has since pleased with performances in Faust, The Way of All Flesh, Variety...
...role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual...
...Some of them: Tilla Durieux, Elsie Hemis, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph & Rudolph Schild-kraut...
...This Is Paris (Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller). Long has Director Ernst Lubitsch been acknowledged master of film comedy. Working with an ordinary plot, he has now excelled himself. Hubby's innocent little lies, wifey's tiny peccadillos grow into impressive embarrassments. The originality displayed in screening this commonplace business assures a pleasant surprise for cynics who have resigned themselves to the belief that the only formula for film fun is custard pie and an abused Ford...
...more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies of the whole production. Along towards...