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...Girl VIII: Why, she even objected to our having a male technician...
...noisy break-down and was replaced by the Initials Plan, the CWA did not fail to extend its benevolence to creative geniuses in the arts who were faced with starvation when the market for their products, like that for wheat, coal, and rubber, failed. Like the Medici, like Henry VIII, like Riche-lieu, a sovereign people undertook to subsidize bona fide creators...
...most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence but they...
Charles Laughton (Henry VIII); runner-up: Paul Muni (/ Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang...
Donn Marquis's MASTER OF THE REVELS has not been produced in the theatre. It is in reality a novel in play form. For twenty years Mr. Marquis has been intending to write a book about HENRY VIII. He has always had a certain amount of symphony for "that ribald, disreputable old hellion...