Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buck-toothed King Carol of Rumania lay on his bed last week and his tonsils swelled and swelled, his head throbbed. Obviously there was no gratitude in this world, no sense of loyalty. His own brother, slack-chinned Prince Nicholas (the one member of the royal family who stuck by Carol in all his marital difficulties, the one of whom he has frequently said "I owe the throne to him"), had so far forgotten himself to marry a commoner! In bed with tonsilitis & bronchitis King Carol hoarsely croaked: "It's an outrage to the Hohenzollern Dynasty...
Prince Nicholas and his black-haired bride, who is also known as Mme Savianu -her name before she divorced her first husband-stayed in a villa in the country, afraid to come back to Bucharest. King Carol took his tonsilitis & bronchitis off to bed. At intervals he sat up, ordered all records of the marriage destroyed, demanded that the Rumanian Parliament issue a denial that the marriage had ever taken place...
...therein are an Italian tenor and a courtly ex-judge. Before many reels have elapsed the fiance gets himself jailed for badgering a cop and the young person finds herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They...
...Paul Lukas and Lewis Stone were the tenor and the judge with their usual suave excellence. Mr. Lukas did not sing. Sidney Fox played the young woman and would have been very good indeed if she had not been so cutey-cute. Characteristic shot: Miss Fox lying on the bed thrashing arms & legs and wailing, "I'm not a baby...
...bed last week, Serafina di Leo read and reread her congratulatory telegrams. The newspapers told her what she already knew, that her debut as Leonora (// Trovatore) the night before had been successful if not sensational, that she had deported herself with accustomed confidence, displayed a powerful voice, bril liant if sometimes hard. . . . Lazily she stretched out, turned to the comic strips...