Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impeccably literate technique which has always distinguished him. He has costumed his hero in the glamour of the fallen great. Aaron Burr (McKay Morris) is poor, old, an exile in Paris, his political career over. By chance, in a mean Paris wineshop, he finds himself eavesdropping on a Royalist intrigue. With the expert, knowledge of character proper to so eminent a confidence-man, Burr turns the intrigue to his own use. He makes love to the only woman in the conspiracy (Jessie Royce Landis) and steals the fine clothes of the richest conspirator. He fights a duel with a young...
...play has to do with a French provincial politician (Mr. Love) who hires a young blade (Mr. Rathbone) to compromise the wife (Ann Andrews) of a crotchety old royalist (Mr. Kerr). In this way the politician will be able to marry the wife without the unpleasant notoriety which would ensue should he do the compromising himself. It is inevitable that Mr. Rathbone should fall in love with Miss Andrews, that Mr. Love should become irked, expose the scheme to Mr. Kerr, who has known about it all the time. Gracefully the affair is settled, Mr. Rathbone acquiring a racehorse...
Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment...
...Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...
Orated Count Aladar Zichy, Royalist leader...