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...Soldier and the Lady" brings to the screen Jules Verne's great novel, "Michael Strogoff." Akim Tamiroff as the sinister and ambitious Ogareff, Anton Walbrook as Strogoff, and Elizabeth Allen as Nadia carry difficult parts with the utmost conviction. The story of the rebellion against the Czar by Ogareff and Strogoff's efforts to frustrate it is well known to lovers of Jules Verne. The program at the University for the balance of the week is one of the best to appear there for many moons since both features rival in excellence...
...Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding an army at Irkutsk, that reinforcements are on their way to help him put down a Tartar rebellion led by Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg. Highlight of his journey is the day he spends at his home town of Omsk where he is taken prisoner and where his mother (Fay Bainter) and a girl (Elizabeth Allan), whom he has gallantly been escorting along...
...Directed by George Nicholls Jr., and supervised by Ermolieff, the parts made in Hollywood are so shrewdly interwoven with those made in Russia that cinemaddicts will be unable to guess where one starts and the other stops. To make his coup perfect, Producer Berman imported famed Viennese Actor Anton Walbrook who had played the lead in the European version. In his first appearance on the U. S. screen, Actor Walbrook's performance suggests that he will be almost as good an investment for the long pull as the picture is for a quick turn. Most spectacular shot: Ogareff...
...every detail of plot, staging and dialog the two pictures are almost identical. Artist Heideneck (Anton Walbrook), needing a subject for a magazine cover, picks up the wife of a Viennese doctor at a masquerade, paints her in nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle...
This afternoon, Yale will play the Walbrook Club at Baltimore and Princeton will play Georgetown at Washington...