Word: alexandra
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...Whereas," he cried, "it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late sovereign lord, King George VI, of blessed and glorious memory, by whose decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Princess, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, we therefore Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm . . . do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue and heart publish and proclaim the high and mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now . . . become Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of this realm and all her other realms and territories, head...
...first number, four little elves, one after another, suddenly threw their feet in the air and smacked the floor, as though a giant hand had pulled the stage from under them. In Galté Parisienne, even the great Alexandra Danilova and' Choreographer-Dancer Leonide Massine went down: two spills for Danilova, one for Massine. In the wings, frantic Ballet Master Frederic Franklin told his dancers: "Go slow . . . Don't listen to the music, just go on when I tell you." The critic of the Detroit Times described the usually bouncy exits as like "the pussyfooting lope one takes...
Lace on Her Petticoat (by Aimée Stuart; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a garrulous trifle from England about Victorian existence in Scotland. Harking back to the days of ironclad class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...
Much of Lace has the air of a sermon. But it achieves a pinch of satire too, through alternating the McNairns' delight, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, over leveling up with their sniffiness about leveling down. And as Alexandra, young (14) Perlita Neilson brightens several scenes with her urbane self-possession. But the play in general has all the velocity of flowing molasses, and a good deal of its stickiness. Tragically short for the two girls, their friendship comes to seem like a lifelong affair to the audience...
...reign of Edward VII, the rakish son of this sober pair, is wittily described in the imaginary diary of a putative secretary to the King-though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince...