"SUEZ"

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Page 20

"SUEZ"

a--A, Pictorial Serial of the 20th Century-Fox Film

T was Toni, now a student in a Paris girls’ school, who convinced Ferdinand that the great Canal project should be put before personal feelings. She reawakened his dreams of greatness which the idea . would bring, and he resolved to seek the consent of Napoleon, despite his personal dislike for the President of the French Republic.

PRESIDENT NAPOLEON (Leon Ames) received Ferdinand courteously, and went through the motions of looking at his plans. But Napoleon’s mind was more concerned with his schemes to become Emperor than with anything which might benefit France and the world. He told Ferdinand he did not believe the Suez Canal plan could succeed, curtly silencing the young man’s protests. Ferdinand was a man of swiftly changing moods, and the President’s action crushed his hopes,

T was the lovely Princess Eugenie (Loretta Young), who had rejected Ferdinand’s love for the glory of being wife of the French President, who came to him with a new offer from Napoleon. The President was having trouble with the Chamber of Deputies. Napoleon offered to grant Ferdinand approval of the Canal if Ferdinand’s father, Count de Lesseps, Liberal feader, would secure adjournment of the Chamber

T the coffee-house meeting place of the Liberal group, Ferdinand presented the President’s plea, accompanied by Napoleon’® written promise that he would not attempt @ coup d'etat during the adjournment of the Chamber. The Liberals were suspicious, and inclined to refuse. But Ferdinand swayed his father, and reluctantly Count de Lesseps gave the word for the adjourament, though doubtful of Napoleon’s promise. (To be continued.)