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Belgium's northern neighbor was also royally expectant last week. If reports from The Netherlands were true, Queen Wilhelmina, 64, might soon abdicate in favor of her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard. At the same time she would raise his status from Prince Consort to King. Behind the rumored move were the Queen's age, the Prince's sudden popularity and the fluid Dutch political situation...
Unexpected Prop. Strengthening Schermerhorn's position and the throne was an unexpected prop, Prince Consort Bernhard. Before the war, when his flashy roadster was constantly streaking from The Hague to the Riviera, most Dutchmen tagged Prince Bernhard as a playboy. Tut during the war he played a big part in fusing the quarreling Dutch Resistance forces into a unified group which did a notable job of preparing the ground ahead of the Canadian liberators. Bernhard himself negotiated with the Germans and had everything practically sewed up, except for actual signatures, when Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery received their surrender...
...with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...
...princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...