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...native weaver from the Gold Coast of West Africa was introduced to the King and then to the Queen. He understood the position of the King well enough, but that of the Queen was entirely a mystery. Colonel Levy, General Manager of the Exhibition, explained that she was "the King's missus...
...have been prepared for presentation by the company this summer are "Creatures of Impulse" by W. S. Gilbert; "The Countess Cathleen", by W. B. Yeats; "Skeletons", by Miss Constance Wilcox; and "Gammer Gurton's Needle",--one of the first plays presented by the strolling players in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...booming of guns and the tolling of the historic Capitol bell announced to the assembled multitude that the King had started from the Palace. The passage of the Ruler and his Queen, accompanied by various members of the Royal Family surrounded by dazzling brilliance, was marked by cloudburst after cloudburst of healthy Italian "vivas" which completely drowned the strains of royal music and the clankings of salutes...
Inside the Chamber the scenes were even more impressive and hardly less tumultuous. Benito and his Ministers, dressed in newly designed State uniforms, supported by delegations from the Senate and Camera de'Deputati, received the Sovereign and his entourage and conducted them to the Queen's Hall?transformed into a "garden of flowers"?from whence they entered the Royal Tribune...
...signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded by their households. On either side of the Monarch were the Princes of the Blood Royal, resplendent in military uniforms. At the foot of the throne was Benito, covered with gold and lace and plumes...