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ST. JAMES THEATRE. “The most glamorous woman in the world”—that’s what Gabriele d’Annuzio, Italy’s famous poet, lover and soldier-of-fortune -called Isa Miranda, Ray Milland’s leading lady in “Hotel Imperial,” (Paramount’s gripping drama, which is showing now at the St. James Theatre. Isa Miranda, who for nearjy two years has done nothing but prepare for “Hotel Imperial,” her first American film, plays a dazzling international beauty, whose sirencharms have a vital effect on the fortunes of war, Milland, her co-star, plays a romantic Austrian army* officer who is turned into, a national hero by her love. Others figuring importantly in, the production, under the direction of Robert Florey, are Reginald Owen, who plays a gruff Russian army officer and would-be portrait painter, Gene Lockhart, ,a genial hotel-keeper in a Central European frontier town, and J. Carrol Naisli, who plays a- spy and traitor. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 35, 21 November 1939, Page 2
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