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HARVARD '38 MILTON ACADEMY Stuart, cf ss, Hornblower Shean, 2b c, Scaife Sullivan, 3b 1b, Gannett Pope, 1f 2b, Wellington Allen, 1b 3b, Page Doyle, P. K., rf p. Curtiss Roberts, ss 1f, Pratt Colwell, c rf, Forbes Ingalls, p cf, Cunningham...
...hate having to imitate our noted confreres who find in Mr. Arliss' Wellington much of Mr. Arliss' Rothschild, Hamilton, or Disraeli. However, it is not only the easiest way in which to announce another good Arliss picture but also makes critical comment a superfluity...
When he was elected Speaker last month, Joseph Wellington ("Call Me Uncle") Byrns was widely regarded as a legislative weakling incapable of running the top-heavy House with discipline and dispatch. With a 3-to-1 advantage over the Republicans, he could not possibly lose a fight but he was not expected to win many with flash and finesse. Last week brought the first major test of his capabilities as a Speaker and he prepared to make it a great demonstration, to show doubters once & for all that the Democratic majority in the House could and would roll opposition flatter...
...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...
...knighted by his King, the business of impersonating heroes in his country's 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...