Euston Road along with Pentonville Road, and The Angel, Islington. Citations Sources Euston Road The Euston Road is a road in Central London that runs from Marylebone Road to King's Cross. It is part of the London Inner Ring Road and forms part of the London congestion charge zone boundary. The road was originally the central section of New Road from Paddington to Islington which opened in 1756 as London's first bypass providing a route along which to drive cattle to Smithfield Market avoiding central London. Traffic increased when major railway stations, including Euston, opened in the mid-19th century and led to
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,