Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident, the Duke de Pontignac (Charles Boyer) is ready to start recovering when, lying in bed with his eyes bandaged, he hears a girl's voice singing an unknown song. Well again, he tries to find the singer. At first he thinks she must be the stately, flirtatious Empress Eugenie (Mady Christians). Instead it turns out to be the Empress's vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when he gets a chance to conduct the opera...
...German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession...
Dealing with the rise of a little German princess to the position of Empress of all the Russias, "Catherine the Great" is a thoroughly excellent picture. Alexander Korda, whose previous work of note was "Henry VIII," is responsible for the able direction of "Catherine," and to him goes the credit for successfully catching the gaudy brilliance of the "nouveau riche" Russia that was trying to imitate the grandeur of contemporary Europe. Elizabeth Bergner, as has oft been repeated, does a splendid job to produce an absorbing Catherine; and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. also capably handles the Mad Czar Peter, whose throne...
...before landing. When he spoke of himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never took pride in the fact that I made money. It was a pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...