Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast, in order of appearance, includes George H. Reed as Frederick Granton; Howard Patch, Jr., as Phipps; Frederick P. Gray as Lord Birton; Richard Sullivan as Petley; Miss Norma Taylor as Princess Anne; Miss Mary G. Williams as Queen Martha; William L. Batt as General Northrup; Henry H. Reed, Jr. as King Eric VIII; John MacD. Graham as Major Brent; Harry B. Sanderson as Prince William, Herschel T. Berman as Laker; and A. Jerome Himelhoch of late fame in the peace strike, as Dr. Fellman of anarchistic leanings...
...happen to be in a light opera mood, the screen rendition of "Naughty Marietta" now playing at Loew's State will please the ear and delight the eye. Jeannette MacDonald, lush and smiling, is at her best as the French princess who flees to New Orleans to escape a rich but gouty husband-elect. In the part of the mercenary Captain who conquers her heart in the New World, Nelson Eddy makes his first bow before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality...
...lyrics composed by Victor Herbert so many years ago stand the strain of repetition remarkably well. It is in the chorus songs of the lighter sort that the picture achieves its happiest moments. When the Princess tosses off a lilting melody in the music shop, or when she sails with the "casket brides" sent to bewive the men of New France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically...
...Sunday comic supplements 25 years ago. Nemo was a sweet-faced little boy supposedly inspired by Artist McCay's son Robert Winsor. He moved through a fabulous world of clouds and seas and palaces, drawn in delicate color. His companions, natives of Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass-skirted savage named Impie. Last panel in every page showed Nemo at home, in bed, waking from his dream...
...like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent looking...