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...begins when that doctrine is challenged by cocky little Napoleon III (Claude Rains), who thinks he can set up a Mexican Empire while the U. S. has its hands full with the Civil War. Napoleon's instrument is a foppish but well-intentioned Habsburg archduke, Maximilian (Brian Aherne). Through an engineered plebiscite, Maximilian and his wife Carlota (Bette Davis) are duped into accepting the rule of a remote and turbulent land...
...underline its central character, Juárez makes blond-bearded Maximilian a finer straw man than history allows. Benito Pablo Juárez, the Indian-blooded Constitutional President of Mexico, is a democrat because "when a monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change him." In this simple faith Juárez, played with stolid nobility by Paul Muni in a dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when...
Croat's America. Once known as Yugoslavia's finest portrait painter, Croatian Maximilian Vanka was not months in the U. S. two years ago when he painted, for a little Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., a stunning set of murals to which art lovers have been making pilgrimage ever since (TIME, July 19, 1937). Last week slight, courtly, volatile Artist Vanka nearly popped with affability and shyness as Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of his work...
...anonymous, but the publishers assert that it was written by Maximilian Bauer, a soldier of fortune, who resembles Hitler and who, for that reason, was admitted into the inner Nazi circles about the time the Fuehrer came into power six years...
Died. Baron Maximilian Hugo Converse Wilhelm von Romberg. 28, polo player and aviator, grandson of the late Edmund C. Converse, founder of Bankers Trust Co. of New York; when his airplane crashed into the North Shrewsbury River near Red Bank...