Word: edwardian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princely Prose. The first article, which LIFE publishes this week, has a few remembered glimpses of the late Victorian era into which David was born, and many a richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast...
...first article takes the young Prince through the Royal Naval College at Osborne (he had trouble with math) and to Dartmouth ("I ... even sang in the choir"). It closes in good serial form: with his grandfather on his deathbed, as the curtain came down on the Edwardian...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...Joan Fontaine as an elegant Edwardian housewife who kills to get on in the world (TIME, July...
...Joan Fontaine as an elegant Edwardian housewife who kills to get on in the world. (TIME, July...