Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard were packing their bags and getting set to say goodbye to their four daughters (Crown Princess Beatrix, 14, Princesses Irene, 12, Margriet, 9, and Marijke, 5). They will fly to Washington, D.C. next week, where they will be President & Mrs. Harry Truman's first guests in the renovated White House...
...years, public-spirited citizens in The Netherlands have been pitching in guilders to the Prince Bernhard Fund so that promising Dutch artists can broaden their vision and sharpen their palettes by foreign travel. Last week, in Amsterdam's municipal museum, the travelers exhibited their new work. The general verdict of deeply disappointed Dutch critics: the money was wasted...
Except for two dissenting Communists, members of the lower chamber of the Dutch Parliament faced the facts of the times, voted the first royal allowance increase since 1938: for Queen Juliana, a raise from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 guilders ($395,000) a year; for Prince Bernhard, a boost from 200,000 to 300,000 guilders...
Japanese War Bride (Joseph Bernhard; 20th Century-Fox) is a skin-deep drama about the difficulties of a Tokyo nurse (Japan's Shirley Yamaguchi) who goes to live among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...
...conventional Hollywood way, and so, despite its theme of racial tension, is Japanese War Bride. The movie proves notable in only one respect: in the past, the screen's racially mixed love stories have led at least one of the partners to no good end. In Producer Joseph Bernhard's switch on Madame Butterfly, the lovers manage to live happily ever after...