Word: napoleonism
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...result of another change in the cast of the Dramatic Club's spring production, "Napoleon Intrudes", Charles Sedgwick '34 will play the part of Napoleon. The roles of Birgit and Lola have also been shifted, Barbara Magnus playing the former and Jean Goodale the latter...
...guest of Lucky Strike cigaret's radio hour, Governor Roosevelt last week broadcast to the nation his first political speech as a Presidential candidate. Excerpts: "The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes. . . . Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry. The present Administration in Washington has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once...
Punctured Napoleon? Even German Reds are prudent. Last month, in the first presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
...cinema shooting lodge is a curious type of dwelling. Its architecture seems adapted to situation-comedy rather than to outdoor sport, and it almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...
...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...