Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener. Elsie Janis. Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Clemenceau. the Crown Prince, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Producer Albert L. Rule, who was a private in the American Expeditionary Forces, accompanies his picture with a lecture which should have been composed by someone else...
News that Tsar Boris' devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome...
...cinemaddict who has ever heard of Tsar Will Hays should be prepared to guess the outcome of this situation. Megan Davis tries to make a Christian out of General Yen when he is planning to murder a traitorous ex-mistress. He sneers at her attempts, assures her that Christianity is a mumbo-jumbo. To test Megan Davis's sincerity, he offers to accept her as a hostage for the loyalty of his ex-mistress. Miss Davis's Christian faith in the ex-mistress proves to be unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province...
Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop...
Born. To Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III, 38; and Queen loanna, 25, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele; a first child, daughter, 8 Ib.; in Sofia, Bulgaria. Name: Maria Louise...