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Dwarfed only by the Divine Presence, stood His Majesty, George V. King and Emperor, with two sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve...
Dracula-VAMPIRE CRAWLS WALLS IN CLOAK, BITES GIRL, Is SLAIN...
DRACULA - A bad count in a big cloak (TIME...
...Save us Fortuna!" Throated men: "Kill the bull:" Serene, the great Fortuna moved with unhurried, catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his public. Stripping off his rain coat he stepped before the bull, swirling the garment through classic florcos as though it were a bullfighter's cloak, "Go Alfonso!" he cried to a friend in the crowd, "Run! Get me a sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward...
...again did last week by the purchase of 356 theatres, he enjoys the luxury of reminiscence. Tul-chva, Hungarian village, was his start; the cinema-gorged gulches at Los Angeles his end. On the way was childhood immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan...