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...Napoleon Intrudes" is called by its author, Walter Hasenclaver, the noted German expressismist, "An adventure in seven pictures." It portrays 'Napoleon," a wax figure in a museum, together with other celebrities such as Mussolini, the President of the United States, and the French Bluebeard, Monsieur Landru, who becomes dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Europe. He gets himself into a convention of nations, a movie studio, and a madhouse in rapid succession; by his continual insistence that he is Napoleon people are convinced that he is insane. Finally he gives up his idea of reorganizing the governments of Europe...
Alchemist. Medieval in their great black robes and ermine tippets, a solemn bevy of French judges in Paris last week gave Monsieur Jean de Habdank Dunikowski a chance to prove in their presence that he can transmute other metals into gold by bombarding them with what he calls "Z-rays...
Thundering special trains carried Monsieur Andre Tardieu back and forth between Paris and Geneva (390 miles) by night last week. The cost was enormous, but not for a Great Man who is the premier of a Great Power. Busy as a hornet...
...children screaming and thinking it was a bomb. When she opened the door she found those eight little Roman Catholics kneeling by their bedsides praying. . . . The children invented games in which to have one leg or one arm was not a disadvantage but an advantage. . . . They called me Monsieur Auld Reekie." "If you want to start a war" advised Bishop Francis John McConnell, "mobilize the liars and get the churches to bless it." Shanghai police arrested Cinemactor Ronald Colman who was strolling the town after curfew...
...will pardon this intrusion, monsieur," said he, "but I have another note from my country...