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...Chicago, the Legion's board of censors for the first time classified 124 recent pictures for the guidance of Catholic cinemagoers. Among the 52 found "suitable" were Operator 13, The Witching Hour, Honor of the Range, David Harum, The House of Rothschild, Wild Cargo, Melody in Spring, Harold Teen, Thirty Day Princess, The Lost Patrol, The Ferocious...
When hard, chic women are to be judged according to the scantiness of their pajamas or the tint to which they have burned their skins at Deauville or Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy, exquisite Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated...
Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...
Although truth is said to be stranger than fiction, in most historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...
From the point of view of the historian, certain changes in the manuscript, while they improve the continuity and the story of the Rothschild family, introduce purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during...