Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the same lady, now Queen-Empress of Britain, went to John Brown's dockyards on the Clyde for another launching. On the ways rested what will eventually be the biggest ship ever built in Britain, a 34,000-ton half-finished hull known until last week only as No. 534. (TIME, Oct. 1). Standing in puddles in the pouring rain, a vast crowd saw Queen Mary press a button that started the hull down the ways. At the same moment Her Majesty smashed a bottle of Australian Burgundy against No. 534 and cried: "I am happy...
...likely to succeed seems a royalist putsch financed from Italy, though virtuous young Otto has said that he could never take a Throne made his by revolution. Once the Throne is really in sight Austrians are confident that Zita could conquer Otto's scruples. Masterful and imperious, it was "Empress" Zita's great triumph last week that the King of Italy should come...
...Washington, stocky Prince Tsunenori Kaya, first cousin of the Empress of Japan, and his tall, toothy wife, Princess Toshiko, last fortnight peered up at the Washington Monument. "How high is it?" asked the Prince. ''It is 555 ft. 5⅛ in.," replied his guide. "How easy to remember!" exclaimed the Princess. "Just half the Empire State Building." She was not quite right. The Empire State Building...
...Scarlet Empress (Paramount) presents cinemaddicts with an opportunity to view the grandson of Massachusetts' late great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dressed up in a neck-length wig, quaint mustachios and Russian boots, making love to Marlene Dietrich. Two years ago, when he was a hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a job. Said Actor Lodge, whose previous dramatic experience had been confined...
Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...