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...from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds up, as is customary for celebrities in cinema surveys of English history, with a pathetic speech in Parliament...
Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
Other Washington women fancied themselves in the following rôles: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...William M. Hunt 2d. '36; Anubis, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37; Creon, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Captain. Robert I McKee '37; Ghost, James W. Tower '35; Old Shepherd, Stephen Greene '37; Messenger, Glenn Morris '38. Drunken Man Harvey Huston '38. Jocasia, Jean Goodale; Sphinx, Lois Hall; Antigone, Doris Reimer; Matron, Emeline Hill...
...satirizing the bourgeois mores of the unfortunate Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert's treatment of this theme, the struggle of a bourgeois matron to find romance and love, is no doubt superficially satirical, but underneath there is the serious development of this theme. It is this phase of the novel which makes it great and this the movie has neglected. Although it has thus lost the opportunity of making itself a great movie...