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...derby hats and cigars; the gold lace and glory is never in the public eye. The little countries must supply that for us--the ones whose names end in aria and aria, where government is a piratical adventure and not a staid, if piratical, affair of business. A Balkan Queen, making a grad progress through the States, probably attracted more notice than would the Queen of England, had she been the guest...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...
...Wilbur Queen High--8.15 o'clock. Jalia Sanderson, the Queen, looks like the deuce...
...Alpha Oe", Queen Lilionkolani of Hawaii...
...Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic, mainly risible character study. Although the construction is loose-jointed, this is rather good old-time melodrama. The dialogue has genuine folk-flavor. Miss Eames, fire beneath ice, reminded one critic of Queen Elizabeth in preposterous court theatricals. Alfred Lunt (Babe) shared the compliments; Margalo Gillmore pleased as a hot-lipped kitchen baggage...