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...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...
...Gambrino, carousel-pro-prietor with operatic ambitions; Miss Arbuthnot, acidulous Australian novelist; Mrs. Connor, thrifty but romantic hairdresser; possessive Tycoon Julian Heaven-street; Mrs. Heavenstreet, who felt herself to be a woman but was all bound round with committees. The plot is artificial but, as in real life, the puppet-characters are pulled by strings of desire. Tycoon Heavenstreet wants to protect beautiful Miss Grogarty; Hairdresser Connor wants to possess romantic Mr. Gambrino. With the help of Spring, a merry-go-round and Robert Nathan, the fable ends fabulously well, not with a bang but with a snicker...
...University Film Foundation). Making a film puppet-show is even more complicated than making an animated cartoon. This one, though lighted so as to give the effect of a silhouet, is three dimensional. The figures had to be drawn, then cut out of cardboard and sheet-lead, then articulated so that they could move. A German designer, Mrs. Lotte Reiniger, working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats...
Venezuela: Rheumy, blue-spectacled Dictator Juan Vincente Gomez puppet President Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever...
...kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns his enemies' intentions, goes Mongol. The picture closes with the "storm" (1918 Red revolt against Tsarism) gathering fury over the wild plains of Central Asia...