Word: wax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built. Using weather reports from ships at sea, Vice President Jerome Clarke Hunsaker has made hundreds of theoretical crossings, has gathered an abundance of lore to swell the experience of previous actual crossings. He estimates that schedules can be maintained 80% of the time, that his company can wax rich on a diversion of but 4% of the present deluxe steamship traffic...
...Napoleon Greift Ein," or as the English has it "Napoleon Intrudes," deals with a wax figure of Napoleon which comes to life and trys to intervene in the modern world. He boasts that he alone can save Europe from becoming slaven of America. "Dann greift or ein," first in a diplomatic conference, then a boudoir, a motor picture studio, a madhouse, and ultimately the museum again...
...satire in penetrating as well as amusing. Mussolini's wax effigy is deprived of trousers because it is more fitting that he appear thus to the world. Napoleon informs the half-dressed Mussolini that he would be better off "without the trousers of dictatorship...
...Napoleon Intrudes" is called by its author, Walter Hasenclaver, the noted German expressismist, "An adventure in seven pictures." It portrays 'Napoleon," a wax figure in a museum, together with other celebrities such as Mussolini, the President of the United States, and the French Bluebeard, Monsieur Landru, who becomes dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Europe. He gets himself into a convention of nations, a movie studio, and a madhouse in rapid succession; by his continual insistence that he is Napoleon people are convinced that he is insane. Finally he gives up his idea of reorganizing the governments of Europe...
...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...