Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Grand Duchess Kyra Kirillovna of the Romanoffs, 29, younger daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; and Prince Louis Ferdinand of the Hohenzollerns, 30, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; in Potsdam, Germany...
Instead of religious schools government-controlled secular education was expanded. Boy Scout movements were encouraged, the army was taught to read and write. Mohammedan law was largely nullified. The vexing problem of land titles was solved, one major result being that suddenly vast, rich areas became known as "crown property"-i.e., were simply taken by the Shah...
...Pearls of the Crown (Serge Sandberg) behaves oddly by: 1) speaking in three languages, 2) popping up in unexpected places all over the face of the world, and 3) flitting back & forth over the last four centuries with the fervor of a flea at a dog show. More upstart than experiment, Pearls of the Crown is a capricious use of cinema's ample elbow room for the somersaulting imagination and talents of 53-year-old French Stagecrafter Sacha Guitry, who wrote its story, directed it and played four of its leading parts...
...legend of the four huge, tear-shaped pearls that hang from the cross pieces of the British imperial State crown is that they were once Queen Elizabeth's earrings. Taking off from that point, Fabulist Guitry weaves "a veritable fairy tale, the most imaginative passages of which will seem real-perhaps." In the ensuing series of pseudohistorical blackouts, some are naively satirical, others playfully sexy, others plain stodgy. But each is braced up with a neat jigger of the Guitry imp, combines to form a razzle-dazzle of fact & fancy that any cinemagoer should enjoy if he can curb...
...Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...