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...ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar's guards faces the issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does so in an obvious and sensational way, using the stock episodes of crown jewels, an escape to Constantinople...
Proud, prolific and beloved, the House of Coburg counts among its sons British King George, Belgian King Albert, Bulgarian Tsar Boris and other European royalties too numerous to mention. Even the soil of Coburg is something special. As a wedding present the Town of Coburg last week gave a double-bottomed cradle (with Coburg soil between the bottoms) to pink and pretty Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha. She seemed destined to become one day by her brilliant marriage Queen of Sweden. All Coburg was sure that as soon as he is born...
...Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor of his son (the present Tsar Boris) and grim, old Rupprecht, the deposed Crown Prince of Bavaria. In Coburg last week everyone called Rupprecht "Your Majesty." He happens to be the Stuart Pretender to the Crown of Britain...
Ballot counting showed that Red candidates had more than doubled their strength in the City Council, that parties favorable to Tsar Boris had lost more than half their seats. What to do? What would Queen Elena say in Rome? Would Il Duce tolerate a Red Sofia? Must the Tsar & Tsarina in their small stucco palace submit to the existence not two blocks away of a Red Council in the large, stucco City Hall...
Hurriedly the Tsar sent for Muschanoff, his trusty Premier...