Word: rudolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RADIUM - Rudolf Brunngraber - Random House ($2.50). Stiltedly-written story of the discovery and world-exploitation of radium...
...traditional, the nattily dressed Realmleader entered to the strains of his favorite march, the Badenweiler, minced his way to the speaker's stand through a lane of Storm Troopers as wave upon wave of throaty cheers thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf...
...life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening...
Ronald Colman, who can pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...