Did Ney die before a firing squad, punishment for abandoning his post as Marshal of France to assist Napoleon during the Hundred Days? Or did he end his days in North Carolina as a school teacher?
Carey Wilson's short subjects for MGM, like Nesbitt's PASSING PARADE, were survivals of silent film-making. Performers acted act their roles in dumb show, while the narrator offered commentary on the play. However, while Nesbitt usually spoke about the commonplaces of life, or inspirational stories of people now forgotten, Wilson liked to indulge is the fanciful and mysterious. He wrote and narrated several on that cookbook writer, Michel de Nostradmus, offering his incomprehensible quatrains as unerring predictions of days to come, straight out of FATE magazine. Here he offers the idea that Ney may have escaped his firing squad and spent his last decades as the aforementioned schoolteacher.
Were this offered as a work of fiction, I might find it an amusing trifle.
Carey Wilson's short subjects for MGM, like Nesbitt's PASSING PARADE, were survivals of silent film-making. Performers acted act their roles in dumb show, while the narrator offered commentary on the play. However, while Nesbitt usually spoke about the commonplaces of life, or inspirational stories of people now forgotten, Wilson liked to indulge is the fanciful and mysterious. He wrote and narrated several on that cookbook writer, Michel de Nostradmus, offering his incomprehensible quatrains as unerring predictions of days to come, straight out of FATE magazine. Here he offers the idea that Ney may have escaped his firing squad and spent his last decades as the aforementioned schoolteacher.
Were this offered as a work of fiction, I might find it an amusing trifle.