Word: aiglon
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...Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...
...after a short, pathetic life of exile among the conquerors of his nation, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte by Marie Louise of Austria died of tuberculosis in Vienna. Edmond Rostand wrote a moving play about L'Aiglon, as he was called, and great actresses played the part, but nobody ever thought the bones of the young Duke of Reichstadt important enough to be moved to Paris until Adolf Hitler conceived of the gesture as a "symbol of good will and hope for eternal peace...
Last week Nazi workmen removed the remains of L'Aiglon from the dingy cellar of Vienna's Capuchin Church, placed the plain lead casket aboard a Paris-bound express. Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop left Berlin for a secret destination. Pierre Laval, Vice Premier of France, left Paris for Vichy. He arrived there late one afternoon...
When they were resumed, a wild story burned the wires. The affaire de L'Aiglon had been a plot to seize or assassinate Marshal Pétain while he was in occupied France, whereupon Pierre Laval would have assumed the Office of Chief of State, set up a Fascist regime under the wing of Nazi Germany, and declared war on Great Britain. Whether or not this story had any substance of truth, Pierre Laval immediately became a pariah to the Government of France. Marshal Pétain broadcast a curt, messianic message to his people...
...Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...