The Angel, Islington the northern side, on the corner of what is now the junction of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road, while the stables were now on what is St John Street, adjacent to the New Inn, which had been established in 1744. The Angel benefited from the extra traffic brought by the New Road, and in addition to accommodation provided a number of assembly rooms for public meetings. The author and political activist Thomas Paine is believed to have begun writing "Rights of Man" at the Angel in 1790, and there is a monument on Islington High Street commemorating this. By
The Blue Angel threatening to quit the production. "The Blue Angel" was to be his last great cinematic moment; it was also one of UFA's last great films. Film historian Andrew Sarris comments on this double irony: "The Blue Angel" was scheduled for its Berlin premiere on April 1, 1930, but UFA owner and industrialist Alfred Hugenberg, unhappy with socialist Heinrich Mann's association with the production, blocked release. Production manager Pommer defended the film, and Mann issued a statement distancing his scurrilous anti-bourgeois critique from Sternberg's more humane portrayal of the Professor Immanuel Rath in his movie version.. Sternberg, who declared himself apolitical,