Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...
Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...
...ingeniously designed set of scenery permits a swift running-together of scenes in Eva Le Gallienne's production, thus adding greatly to the buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy...
...Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...French film impresses one as being very like The Perils Of Pauline telescoped into one sitting (in Siberia) and inverted into the masculine gender. The hero, as told in Jules Verne's novel, is solemnly commissioned by the Tsar Alexander to take a message from Moscow to the Grand Duke in Irkutsk. After encountering the Tartar hordes single-handed for no good reason, Mike arrives in time to kill the archvillain with his bare hands. The motivation puerile, the photography clumsy, it has, however, some good horse-backing...