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...greatest parade of kings, ministers and great ladies ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...
...paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
Before the Assembly was a proposal to repeal a church law which, since the reign of Henry VIII, has forced the Church of England to consecrate any and all bishops appointed by the Crown (i.e., the Government). Speaking in favor of this, Lord Hugh reminded his fellows that the present Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is a Unitarian, as are all his family. Said Churchman Cecil: "Whatever function he is called upon to perform under the Constitution, the present Prime Minister performs it thoroughly and conscientiously. Nevertheless ... he is ... a Unitarian Christian,* and it certainly does seem to me . . . that...
...ARTICLE VIII...