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...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 of the dynasty harshly and makes Nathan a sentimental parvenu, its general temper is complimentary and its continuity closer to fact than...
...founder of the House of Rothschild was 'Mayer Amschel, son of Amschel Moses Bauer. He was a dealer in coins, curios and jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking...
...Rothschilds did found five banking houses in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. Shrewd enough to guess that Napoleon could not last, they supported the Allies for reasons of good business rather than sentiment. Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down...
...nothing I can pat") puts fish on his menu. He keeps an elaborate research library to help him with costume parts. He rehearses privately for two weeks before every picture, takes his wife's advice about makeup. She plays in his pictures only when, as in Rothschild, she can appear as his devoted wife. George Arliss's monocle, originally an affectation but now a necessity, has worn deep grooves around his right eye. He has never been known to break one. He gets exercise by walking, followed slowly by his car and chauffeur so that when tired after...
...first series of races at New Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining at Palm Beach. John Sanford gave a party for the Italian drivers-Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Count Theo Rossi de Montelera, Antonio Becchi. The French drivers- Publisher Jean Dupuy, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Marquis Gonzalo de la Gan-dara-had a tea given them by Mrs. Frederick E. Guest. Last week, the last heats of the races were postponed so that all the drivers could motor to Miami and watch Time Clock win the Florida Derby, and attend Harry L. Doherty's dinner...