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...Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Douglas Fairbanks, a biography of Adventuress Lola Montez called The Californian...
...plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
...many, many years?and expressed to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow the Government's extreme gratitude for the rifles and ammunition which President Hoover is permitting to enter Mexico in hopes that the federal soldiers will thus be aided to make a quick peace. During the week Finance Minister Luis Montez de Oca announced that he had spent $5,000,000 "on the expenses inseparable from mobilization...
...soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling with undertones of violence and defiance. Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Mme. Moustache, Poker Alice, Kitty the Schemer, and other lady wildcats of this astounding period in American history are highly spiced side dishes to the Calamity Jane main course. Author Aikman has garnished facts with picturesque phraseology, has neatly dedicated his volume "with some hesitation and infinite deference...