Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee Soapmaker Caleb Johnson, president of Palmolive Co., the Russian Revolution was a nuisance. On the day they assassinated the Tsar, a boatload of his pet Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...
...back in the good old days when there was still Little Father Tsar to do all the purging in holy Russia. It was in the idyllic sixties, when maidens still raved of fauns and peasant-song, that a handsome young Emperor of all the Russias bound his fate to that of an impetuous little princess who had grown up in hatred of "all the Romanovs...
...story of the tragic love between Tsar Alexander II and Princess Dolgoruki is told tenderly and tearfully in "Katia," the new French film at the Fine Arts. A gushing romance not entirely free from 10c novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps...
...Dolgoruki is so appealingly feminine that to call her a "good actress" would be an in sult? Her development from a wild, self-willed girl to a woman possessed by her one and only love is a woman's rather than a star's performance. John Loder as the Tsar is almost repulsively sweet; but again there may be some historical justification for that. His promising career as Russia's liberator is cruelly broken off by an assassin's bullet--and the touching show comes to a touching end. Katia's final words: "Pauvre Russie!" sets the audience reflecting...
Three weeks ago, when Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis freed 91 players from Detroit (TIME, Jan. 29), rival major-league club owners let 90 of these uncaged Tiger cubs amble back to cover, but put out hell-for-leather after the gist: 22-year-old Benny McCoy...