Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
...Iron Duke (Gaumont-British) exhibits the Duke of Wellington before, during and after Waterloo. An arch and finicky general, he seems to enjoy himself more at the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing on the city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild...
...history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that it seems strange when he orders his cavalry to charge instead of trying to arrange a merger. Whatever the effect...
...Duke of Wellington, George Arliss gives an able and highly entertaining portrayal of how Mr. George Arliss would have conducted himself had he been in command of the army which defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo. Physically, of course, he does not come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious...
...process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers and let her beauty run to fat in order to train the young Louis for the role of Pretender. It did not matter that Louis was an eight-month child, and probably no blood relation of Bonaparte...