Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helena (By R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis; Max Gordon, producer). This play by the author of Journey's End presents British Actor Maurice Evans in a quiet, minutely drawn portrayal of Napoleon Bonaparte's last years on the rocky island of St. Helena. With his handful of faithful generals, the exiled emperor arrives with a grim swagger, never doubting that he will soon be leaving as he left Elba. At once he foregoes his precious daily ride on horseback when he learns that a British guard must accompany him. But hope springs up when he reads...
...Napoleon makes his harassed but pompous jailer, Sir Hudson Lowe (Percy Waram), wait for an interview, refuses finally to see him at all. At a birthday dinner, he wonders if he had not better died after one of his victories. The ensuing discussion is interrupted by an earthquake...
...Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire...
History 14--French Revolution and Napoleon--has become History...
...point out to laymen of the Press that the White Armies under Generalissimo Francisco Franco were now engaged in trying to take Madrid by exactly the same tactics over exactly the same roads and passes as served British General Sir Arthur Wellesley to take Madrid from the Emperor Napoleon's great Marshals Ney, Massena and Soult in the Peninsular War. After that campaign Sir Arthur became the Duke of Wellington...