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This-week the Fine Arts presents "The Merry Monarch," a whimsical tale of the mythical Kingdom of Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
...King's Horses (Paramount). This is designed for people who like uniforms and double-identity scenes and even more for those who like Carl Brisson. He plays both leading roles-King Rudolph, a monarch who leaves his throne to see life, and Carlo Rocco, an actor who substitutes for the King. There are many scenes where Brisson sings to himself, argues, drinks and laughs with himself, filling the screen in all directions with the manly Brisson dimples but managing more than in his earlier pictures to tone down the Brisson mannerisms. A situation develops well toward the middle...
Like the cab horse, the absolute monarch and the beehive police helmet, the sailing ship is rapidly fading from human sight. Many a sailor, professional and amateur, is sorry. But that nostalgic sorrow might well be mitigated by such a superb record of the sailing ship's passing as this book of Sailor-Author Villiers...
Acting honors for the evening were snatched by Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35 as Falstaff, who shook and belched and toddled and fought and ran and swore his way through that bawdiest of parts King Henry, in the person of Roger W. Drury '36, was a stately and dignified monarch, bent on the suppression of rebellion, and on the reformation of his madcap son, Harry...
...funeral last week brought their own soldiers. The soldiers brought plenty of ammunition for their own rifles. It was that kind of a Balkan funeral, grand and grim. Perhaps never until last week had all Europe escorted to his tomb with so much pomp and precaution a monarch only four generations in descent from a swineherd...