Word: mauprat
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...unclear. Fritz Lang's "Destiny," he says, "clarified my life and my vision of the world." One result of that clarification was that he saw that he wanted to make films. He started as an extra and errand boy for Jean Epstein during the filming of "Mauprat," then spent six months in Hollywood hanging around the studios and dining with Charlie Chaplin. Back in France, he did "Les Caves du Vatican," which was spliced under a magnifying glass because they'd run out of money...
...keep a very clear head and came within an ace of being the victor. The comedy element in the guise of Sieur de Beringhen, Gordon Hart, was effective in spite of the fact that his elongated person did not particularly suggest a gourmand. Ernest Rowan as Chevalier de Mauprat was just a bit enthusiastic, but the high flavor of his lines excused that. The person who was in all probability the most consistent interpreter of the play in the terms its author probably intended was Miss Ingeborg Torrup as Julie de Mortemar, and for that reason she was the least...
...played on Monday night by Robert Mantell and his company at the Boston Opera House the play gained little in production. The story of Richelieu's intrigues, the love affair of Adrian De Mauprat and Julie De Mortemar, and Baradas' conspiracy against the weakling Louis XIII is too well known to be repeated. But to that story, brimful of striking theatric effects which Macready aided Lytton in devising, little sense of the dramatic and cumulative was brought by Mr. Mantell and his company...
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