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...after giving birth to four very handsome daughters, Russia's German-born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher...
Cincinnati is one of those rare cities in which a society editor is the social tsarina -Marion Devereux, a spry, birdlike, fiftyish spinster who inherited from her mother the society editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last...
...Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding...
That is the horrid end of Rasputin but not the end of horridness in Rasputin and the Empress. It goes on to show Tsar Nicholas (Ralph Morgan), the Tsarina (Ethel Barrymore), the Tsarevitch (Tad Alexander) and his sisters leaving their palace and being herded into a cellar where an enthusiastic firing squad disposes of them as though they were clay pigeons...
...must not be supposed from these two incidents that Rasputin and the Empress consists entirely of gore and gunpowder. It starts as a pedestrian historical romance, documented with occasional newsreel shots. The Tsarina pats her children on the head. Chegodieff makes love to a lady in waiting (Diana Wynyard). Rasputin endears himself to his betters by curing the ailing Tsarevitch with hypnotism. He acquires control of the government by conspiring with the head of the secret police, loses favor by trying to paddile into the bedroom of an adolescent princess...