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Last week the great, mournful bell of St. Paul's pealed for the first time since the death of Edward VII; tolled for the Dowager Queen Alexandra, his royal consort, who died of a lingering heart trouble at Sandringham, their onetime summer home...
Some months ago members of the British royal family commenced to bestir themselves in the performance of an annual and not unimportant duty-the choice of motifs and mottoes for their Christmas cards...
...King's card represents in decorous fashion the opening of the Royal Exchange by Queen Elizabeth. The Prince of Wales' card, rushed through after his return from South America, depicts the landing of that hardy wanderer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, at Newfoundland in 1583. The Queen's card unexceptionably shows Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III, visiting the Cloth Hall at Norwich...
...Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...
...hard to see how any comparison could redound very greatly to its discredit. To begin with, Basil Dean has given an exceptionally sane and skillful production. To quote his own words in a program note: "Upon the vast, bare, stage of the old Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the year 1777, under the fitful light of oil lamps and candles, without the aid of doors, ceilings, and the usual accompaniments of modern stage realism, . . . the success of this classic of English Comedy was first obtained. Therefore, believing that the play calls for some of that breadth of treatment to which...