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...every part of Teheran Axis agents egged on the people, sending them down to Parliament to agitate for bread. Orators harangued the crowd, worked it up with cries to oust the government. By evening the mob was marching down the main thoroughfare, Stamboul Street, ready for physical violence...
...Riot Starts. A crowd of hooligans swarmed over Stamboul Street. A provocateur jumped on a traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
...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...
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...