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Although truth is said to be stranger than fiction, in most historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...
...story was written, takes full advantage of his opportunities and gives the best performance of his motion picture career. For the first time since "Disraeli," he ceases to be Arliss, and becomes the character he is depicting. His support: Robert Young, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Helen Westley, et el., together with the able directing and technical assistance add to the worth of this excellent picture...
...Julie (Loretta Young) has become attached to Wellington's aide. Captain Fitzroy (Robert Young). When his treatment in the matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz. To save his fellow Jews from further persecution. Nathan Rothschild is almost ready to humble himself by appealing to Ledrantz when word arrives, by his secret method of communication, that...
...Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under...
Plymouth--"Reunion in Vienna." With Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Ernest Cossart, Helen Westley. What more could be desired? Reviewed in this issue...