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Most first-nighters were of the opinion that production honors were even between Designer Bel Geddes, for the magic of his lighting and setting, and Director Reinhardt, for his skill in effectively sweeping the great crowds and actors over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond...
At 40 Catherine was the widow of one king, mother of another, but she was still not even an amateur of politics. As a widowed mother with a large family to look after, she gradually turned as professional as a U. S. Postmaster General.
With desperate maternal shrewdness Catherine tried, by one opportunistic scheme after another, to stave off the collapse of her royal house. She tried to balance the religious diet by enforcing toleration of the Huguenots, she tried to raise money by appealing to the States-General. When these expedients failed and...
By noon of the first day's killing in Paris (the massacre spread later to other towns), 3,000 Protestant men, women and children had been killed. Wrote the Spanish Ambassador to his King: "As I write, they are killing them all, they are stripping them naked, dragging them...
Her onetime enemy, Henri of Navarre, who became Henri IV of France in spite of all Catherine's maternal machinations, gave the old lady her due. Said he: "What could the poor woman do, with five little children on her arms, after the death of her husband, and two...