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Lloyd's of London (Twentieth Century-Fox). In The House of Rothschild (1934), Producer Darryl Zanuck imparted to a waiting world the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...years that make Nelson's name a byword throughout England make Blake (Tyrone Power) a rising power in the syndicates. Like young Rothschild, he devises a scheme for speeding up news. Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel. While operating his system, Blake meets a mysterious young English girl (Madeleine Carroll ) at Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when...
That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business...
...painter, put in several years producing sentimental canvases in the Barbizon manner. Hunt Diederich achieved his first popular success with a 15-ft. bronze of two gamboling greyhounds. It won a mention at the Paris Autumn Salon, much notice in the press, was promptly bought by Robert de Rothschild...
...refer to Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...