Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...
...Warner Bros.). Instead of Arabia or Becky Sharp, Producer Hal Wallis chose the more realistic subject of the Northwest woods and the logging industry for this Technicolor. Cast, technical crew, Director William Keighley and Red Spierling, logging superintendent of the Crown Willamette Paper Co., whose crew set a world's record in 1931 by getting out 1,662,000 ft. of lumber in a single day, spent two months at Longview, Wash., making the outdoor sequences. The result, as background of a story loosely adapted from James Oliver Curwood's 1922 novel, is the most spectacular investigation...
Never was a story more Dutch than that last week of "The Other Juliana." It had been decided by Her Majesty's Government that, as a mark of respect to Crown Princess Juliana, she and her bridegroom would be the only persons married in The Netherlands on their wedding day. The attention of Her Majesty's Government was then drawn to that buxom coincidence, the Dutch female who was born on the same day and at approximately the same moment as H. R. H. Juliana, the honest wench Petronella van der Meer...
...appeared that this person was engaged to marry the honest vegetable peddler Martinus van Stijn and wished to do so on the day of the Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday...
...Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while you are married. Your marriage would never have been noticed had it not been celebrated on the same day as that of our Crown Princess. You are not of the least importance. I offer my congratulations and good wishes...