THE RASPUTIN FILM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9

THE RASPUTIN FILM

COMPLAINT BY PRINCESS MR LOCKER LAMPSON'S EVIDENCE > (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright.} 'LONDON,! March :X----(Received March 3, at 5 p.m.) / ~ At the hearing of the case in .which Princess Yousoupoff,otherwise.Princes!, irimi Alexandrovna, cousin'of the late Czar, is suing the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayef Company with respect' ip ; .the '.'.Sim ■ "Rasputin and the Empress,''-the court; was electrified when Mr \G. LockerLampeon, M.P., declared his acquaintance with : Purishkevitch, and said he ' actually invited'him to murderv;Rasputin, with whom '..he ■'■ was;;;;also; = acquainted. ;'-- -';•' " ';■■■■--'■■■,"" ! : Lieutenant-colonel ThornbiH, British, attachein Russia, said he Natasha and Gregorieff were'Actional: \ : characters. , '"' ,

Mr Locker Lampsoh, recalled, Said he took a force of armoured cars to Russia in war time. ,He was ;in a besieged hotel in Petrograd •; during". the.; revolution. He met the Czar and engaged in a plot to save,him.. He''knew Princess Yousoupoff. : He thought the.film was ennobling and not degrading.- •, - : . . \ Other; witnesses said they did; not .associate Natasha with Princess..lririai

Mr Wright; English chairman of; the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 'Company,, said the film bad been-.cut) when Princess Irina complained, and everything possible had; been, done to satisfy her. .