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...chief interest in this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked...
Those scenes which are not devoted to the fascinating finance of Orloff are, for the most part, dull--particularly those in which Antony makes casual love to Niki. Allison Skipworth supplies slight comedy relief...
About two years ago able Correspondent Hubert R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post was visited in Berlin by a bald Russian with a trowel beard- Vladimir Orloff, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. From him Reporter Knickerbocker obtained a number of letters purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents (TIME, July 22, 1929). After a trial somewhat embarrassing internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly...
What happened later to change Herr Jaffe's mind is not recorded. But in Berlin last week Reporter Knickerbocker won a court injunction, forerunner of a libel suit, against a book just published: Murderers, Counterfeiters & Provocateurs, by Vladimir Orloff. In a preface to his client's volume, Herr Jaffe stated that M. Orloff had been forced into his crime by an agent provocateur in the person of Reporter Knickerbocker...
...biology professor's lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League...