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...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...
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...
...Colonel Mannerheim was marked as a coming man in the service of the Tsar. That year he was picked to head a sort of glorified spying expedition through Asia to Peking. Purpose of the trip was to learn how hostile mandarins and officials had accepted the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, to pick up useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made...
...Bessarabian and Rumanian fronts. After the March Revolution in Russia, Disciplinarian Mannerheim began to have trouble with his younger officers, tried to punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ...