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...authoritative, independent Vossische Zeitung last week: "He who was elected by part of the people is today the chosen of the whole nation. . . . This dispassionate man, by the glamour of his historic name,* by the dignity he has brought to his great office, has achieved a romantic nimbus...
Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...
Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...
...current number of the Pravda, the official organ of the Soviets, contains a cartoon. This represents three rollicking gentlemen, (arm-in-arm, in top hats, one of which is encircled by a nimbus. Underneath are three names, The King of England,' 'MacDonald and 'Jesus Christ...
...NIMBUS CLUB.- Smoker tonight (Friday) in 11 Hastings. All members please be present...