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...goes swimming naked, loses her clothes when her horse runs away, spends a night with the young man who catches the horse. The picture's title derives from the closeup scenes showing hero & heroine together in a cabin. Even French critics found these shots "extremely audacious" and Fritz Mandel, Austrian munitions maker and husband of Hedy Kiesler, was so outraged that he used all his might and money to have the film suppressed throughout Europe. Last summer Extase drew enormous crowds when it was exhibited at the International Film Exposition in Venice. Pope Pius was so disturbed...
...gold standardist, M. Louis Germain-Martin, agreed to stay on as Finance Minister, government bonds and the franc upped again. The rest of M. Flandin's new Cabinet was composed largely of other holdovers from the Doumergue Cabinet, but he was able to spring one major surprise-Georges Mandel...
Nobody has ever before been able to get M. Mandel into a Cabinet, yet no French politician has a name more magical among his Chamber peers. Mandel was Clemenceau's greatest henchman, the lynx who did the Tiger's undercover work, much of it dirty. That Georges Mandel accepted last week the obscure post of Minister of Communications was characteristic. Any other portfolio would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck...
...Fritz Mandel, wife of the president of Austria's famed Hirtenberg Ammunition Works, was, before her marriage last year, Cinemactress Hedy Kiesler who got her start as Eva, the heroine of Extase. Tycoon Mandel not only does everything he can to have the film suppressed in as many countries as possible, but also maintains an offer to buy all outstanding posters of his wife in Extase...
...Robert Mandel '34, John M. Capron '34, Raymond Dennett '36, Willard Rubenstein '35, Richard S. Salant '35, and James M. Heidell '35, will compose the delegation from the United States...