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Last March a London jury decided that the Princess deserved $125,000 from MGM because the cinema Rasputin and the Empress showed a "Princess Natasha" being raped by the Mad Monk of the Russian court (TIME, March 12). Princess Irina had only one connecting link with Rasputin: her husband had helped to murder him on the night...
...Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess received in addition to her cash award a stipulation that hereafter Rasputin and the Empress will only be shown with a preface explaining "Princess Natasha" is entirely fictional...
When, three weeks ago, a British court awarded Russian Princess Youssoupov $126,800 on the ground that the cinema Rasputin libeled her, it opened Hollywood's eyes to a vista of disastrous possibilities. If superior courts uphold her claim, all the connections or descendants of famed characters in all the historical pictures, which are currently the cinema's most profitable fashion, might sue for damages. But the Rothschild descendants who are today one of Europe's most potent banking families are not likely to drag Producer Zanuck into court. Although the picture treats the founder...
...champagne salesman living in Palm Beach with his wife, the onetime Audrey Emery (,f Cincinnati and New York, Grand Duke Dmitri has never written about, described or discussed his part in the murder of Rasputin. Last week he refused to be interviewed about the London trial...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...