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...bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Nancy Lane, hire her as a substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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