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...well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important vehicle for the alluring and competent Kay Francis. Best shot: interior of a house of ill-fame patronized by high tsarist military officials...
With 47 alleged associates Professor Riazanzev, once a General in the Tsarist army, was arrested speedily at Moscow. Fired by the Soviet press, workers' meetings throughout European Russia telegraphed to the Capital resolution after resolution demanding Death for the 48 accused. One resolution asked that the supreme Soviet decoration, "The Order of Lenin," be conferred on Ogpu, the secret service organization which had ferreted out this plot. A new flood of contributions poured in from workers for the proposed Soviet Zeppelin, to be christened Ogpu in honor of the secret police...
...being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting the women's arrest as "coin-hoarders," famed Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") ominously stated last week that twelve priests have been arrested for coin-hoarding in recent months, that twelve other persons have been...
...Princes and princesses were numerous in Tsarist Russia. As Oxford's scholarly Walter Alison Phillips wrote before the War: "The Russian title of 'prince' (knyaz) implies undoubted descent from the great reigning houses of Russia, Poland and Lithuania; but the title descends to all male children, none of whom is entitled to represent it par excellence. There may be three or four hundred princes bearing the same distinguished name; of these some may be great nobles, but others are not seldom found in quite humble capacities-waiters or droshky-drivers. The title in itself.has little social value...
...products of Red workers and property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than $50,000 for confiscated property alone." Ever since the revolution the Soviet Government has been trying-and failing -to sell Tsarist property at its "sentimental value." European and U. S. jewelers have resolutely refused to buy sentiment, have mostly returned from Russia emptyhanded. It is well-known that the sale of the Russian Crown Jewels has been held up on this account. The next U. S. cruise ship, citizens...