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Last March a London jury decided that the Princess deserved $125,000 from MGM because the cinema Rasputin and the Empress showed a "Princess Natasha" being raped by the Mad Monk of the Russian court (TIME, March 12). Princess Irina had only one connecting link with Rasputin: her husband had helped to murder him on the night...
...MGM appealed the verdict, lost a second time. It could, if it would, have carried the case to the House of Lords, but the Princess was prepared to sue MGM in the U. S., start actions against every exhibitor daring to show the picture. This meant not only that MGM might be liable for damages to exhibitors who were forced to pay the Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter...
...half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since. She has additional offices in Hollywood and London. Most of her friends as well as her clients are stage folk. Last week's dinner to toast MGM's defeat was given by Miss Holtzmann in the apartment of her friend Mrs. Charlotte Goulding...
...Kruger, the most bedridden leading man in Hollywood, croaks through his pillowcase, Edward Brophy shuffles through the role of a disheveled newshawk and Madge Evans gives one more of the ingratiating performances which have lately made her the busiest ingenue in Hollywood. Good sequence: a fashion show, designed by MGM's famed Gilbert Adrian...
...Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...