Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard Elizabeth Bergner as the answer to a moviegoer's prayer, the revival of "Catherine the Great," at the Fine Arts will hold great appeal. Miss Bergner portrays the Empress Catherine II of Russia amid flocks of befrilled and bewigged gentlemen, vainly attempting to rule an empire while her mad husband philanders and rages...
...unhappy contrast, "Mad Holiday"' the companion feature, with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi, is rather slow and hackneyed. Philip Trent (Edmund Lowe), a movie actor wearied of his acedetective role in mystery films, boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...
...Boiling mad at this Japanese-British sharp practice, M.P.'s demanded that His Majesty's Government bring in a bill to deprive of Imperial preference any cloth which is not British-woven-from-British- made-thread-and-British-finished...
What made the Senator mad was Broker
...cruise, let alone a fight. Many of their ships were obsolete, the crews ignorant, ill-fed, mutinous. The commander, Admiral Rozhestvensky, an egotistical apoplectic, kept the air blue with curses, insults, frantic orders, all to no avail. The fleet did its poor best, shrugged its shoulders, called him "the mad admiral...