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...requires the careful ministrations of three capable principals to save the authors' bacon from the fire of public disapproval, and the principals cook to the queen's taste. The methods of the three are in great contrast. Miss Kennedy depends upon her ability as an actress; she is constantly alert from beginning to end, with never a gesture too many, and never a quarter note too high, so far as she can see. Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Farnham, the American lover, twice entangled by engagements, employs the easy, off-stage air which distinguishes Roland Young. There is too much, physically...
...Frank N. D. Buchman, "Soul Surgeon" and "Anti-Auto-erotist" invited 150 persons to his Manhattan residence, last week, to meet Queen Marie, to whom he was presented on the Leviathan a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The Queen did not appear. Mr. Buchman wrote "Ambassador Hotel, to meet Queen Marie" with a red pencil on 150 blank white cards. Then he and his guests trooped to Her Majesty's apartments in the Hotel Ambassador, presented their cards, were presented to the Queen...
...West Point she took a severe cold out into the rain to review the cadets on parade. Said the Queen of the Rumanians: "I am a soldier...
...been said, and with as much truth as is usually inherent in generalities, that England has attained to her greatest artistic heights not under her kings, but under her queens. Whether this be a fact or not, it is undeniable that the pinnacle of English literature at least was attained during the years under "Good Queen Bess...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, English literature became for the first time truly English. Chaucer it is true took for his characters inhabitants of England, but if one reads contemporary Continental literature one may find the identical personalities. Shakspere on the other hand, placed the action of some of his dramas in foreign countries, but the characters are purely English...