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Tall, lean, athletic, with neatly combed iron grey hair and blue eyes, he makes a good impression when he addresses the House. No ranter, he speaks to the point and is well prepared on the few subjects he selects to discuss. He waves his hands, indulges in a few oratorical flourishes but is otherwise logical and legalistic on his feet...
...Congress: Distinguished as the Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite,*he is no radical ranter. The Republican majority has taken him unofficially under its wing. Thanks to the G. O. P., he has good committee assignments (especially Foreign Relations, Agriculture). He is even chairman of one minor committee (Printing). Theoretically the most independent man in the Senate, he can generally be found lining up with the Insurgent Republicans on economic questions. As a Senator he represents a bookish type who carries no flaming banner of Liberalism pellmell into the midst of a political fight. His largest single legislative accomplishment...
...done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter-Alice Terry is a suave and lovely aristocrat-all in all, here for once, is a super picture that even a press-agent can hardly super-adjective to death...