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...breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...house by a captain of dragoons (Theodore Newton). This infuriates de Sarnac. He gets his chance for revenge when Voltaire writes a play based upon court doings and containing a last act in which Louis XV is executed by his subjects. The King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent...
...Florence, then London, then Paris. Ever since the Salon of 1875 his steady succession of portraits and mistresses had been gaining fame but it was not until the turn of the Century that Boldini entered his Grand Period. He was preeminently the artist of the Edwardian era, of the pompadour, the champagne supper and the ribbon-trimmed chemise...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...
...bronzed Farmer Sumnick, coatless and with suspenders over his blue shirt, greeted Governor Roosevelt on the elm-shaded lawn before his large, well-built house. He introduced his wife who wore her hair in the pompadour style of 25 years ago, his eleven sons and daughters. "You've got a regular Roosevelt family," remarked T. R.'s fifth cousin, father of five. A chicken dinner, cooking since 5 a. m.. was served at tables on the lawn. Smacking over it Governor Roosevelt told his host: "I've eaten a lot of meals since I left home but this...