Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 3, 1934

The Scarlet Empress (Paramount) presents cinemaddicts with an opportunity to view the grandson of Massachusetts' late great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dressed up in a neck-length wig, quaint mustachios and Russian boots, making love to Marlene Dietrich. Two years ago, when he was a hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a...

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