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...music, he is heir to the throne of Europe's tallest King. Of course the Press has persisted in marrying him off too. He was "officially engaged" for a while to Greece's Olga (sister of Britain's new Marina) who finally married Paul, now Prince Regent of Yugoslavia. Rumor then coupled Denmark's Frederick with Belgium's Maria José, Britain's Lady May Cambridge, and various Spanish princesses. A lunatic school of rumor even had him engaged to The Netherlands' plump Crown Princess Juliana, who is heir to a throne...
...foreign-educated Chinese, has his cultural roots in French literature (he speaks no English) and he used to call himself "Henri Waung." In 1903 he graduated from Tokyo Law College and attached himself to Dr. Sun. In 1909 he rushed to Peking for a bold effort to assassinate Prince Regent Chun, father of the Boy-Emperor who was then China's Son-of-Heaven, now reigns as Manchukuo's puppet Emperor...
Nabbed by the Imperial police, who dragged him before the Prince Regent, Would-Be-Assassin Wang was asked by His Highness: "Why did you wish to take my life...
Quick-witted, he replied: "There are so many reasons. With your permission I will write my answers." So decadent was the Manchu Court that audacious Wang, instead of being beheaded for the capital crime of attempting the life of the Prince Regent, was permitted to paint his reasons at such length and in such exquisite characters that His Highness was charmed, condemned Wang to mere life imprisonment from which he was soon released by the Chinese Revolution...
...paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry...