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Love Me and the World Is Mine exhibits a bafflingly total naivete, a gay and unblushing sentimentality such as appears often in fairy tales but seldom in cinema. Agnes Thule, the youngest, hence the last, hence the ultimate Thule, falls in love with one Captain Von Vigilati, as does he with Agnes. Caught kissing, she is turned out of doors by the Thules, pere et mere. Then she goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts...
...Roman Catholic training that means so much to New York's progressive Governor, now bids fair to bar him from the politicians' ultima thule, the President's chair. In the South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached...
...baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
Knud Rasmusscn, Danish Arctic explorer: "We all hope for the best. . . . There is especially the possibility of Amundsen going to Fort Conger or Cape Columbia, in which case nothing would be heard from him until the first mail from Thule [Antartica] about this time next year...
...Chanson Gothique, "Le Roi de Thule...