Word: stamboul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
This is the one about the lady spy whose espionage and counter espionage is complicated by affairs of the heart. "Stamboul Quest," concerning the exploits of Myrna Loy as a German secret service agent, bears too striking resemblance to the well-known story of Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage...
...Stamboul Quest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) goes one step beyond the usual spy story, deals with counter-espionage in Wartime Constantinople. A German spy, Annemarie (Myrna Loy), is set to catch the Turkish Commander of the Dardanelles, who is suspected of selling secrets to the British. With the aid of a large straw hat, and a plan as devious as her Oriental quarry, she succeeds. When she is falsely told that her scheme caused the death of her lover, she becomes mentally deranged, stays cooped up in a nunnery until he returns...
Mounted with authority against a technically difficult background and cannily photographed by James Wong Howe, Stamboul Quest is a mediocre vehicle for another lively performance by Myrna Loy. Best shot: Nuns trooping, two by two, past the demented Annemarie...
...State Junior College, wears gloves to keep his hands from sunburn, and composes operas. With little hope he submitted his latest effort to the Metropolitan. It was called The Eunuch. Henry Chester Tracy, a Los Angeles author, had written the libretto from a short story by Harrison Griswold Dwight (Stamboul Nights...