Word: napoleonism
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...Congress of Vienna was never very far from reality. The Treaty of Paris had concluded peace in May 1814, incidentally mentioning a general rendezvous two months later in Vienna, to parcel out Napoleon's empire. No official summons was ever issued but in two months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand...
...large demand for tickets for the Dramatic Club play, "Napoleon Intrudes", now being shown at the Rogers Building, the management of the Club has announced that there will be an extra performance of the play on Saturday evening...
...Napoleon Greift Ein," or as the English has it "Napoleon Intrudes," deals with a wax figure of Napoleon which comes to life and trys to intervene in the modern world. He boasts that he alone can save Europe from becoming slaven of America. "Dann greift or ein," first in a diplomatic conference, then a boudoir, a motor picture studio, a madhouse, and ultimately the museum again...
...satire in penetrating as well as amusing. Mussolini's wax effigy is deprived of trousers because it is more fitting that he appear thus to the world. Napoleon informs the half-dressed Mussolini that he would be better off "without the trousers of dictatorship...
First honors in the cast go to Charles Sedgewicke '34 as Napoleon. He had the Napoleonic manner, the stance, the gesture, the voice,-the ego. He had the serious, preoccupied visionary expression of the general. Jane Mast shared honors in her capable presentation of Josephine. The experienced manner in which she conducted an intrigue was positively exciting. Robert Breckinridge '34 was a highly amusing Hippolyte. Vernon Hodges '34 as Mr. Morris was sufficiently dapper and sophisticated. Some of the parts were somewhat overdone, rough spots in the acting were perhaps too often apparent. On the whole, however, the plot...