Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois went to Dublin, got a job as a waiter, married an Irish girl named Bridget Elizabeth Dowling, had a son, two years later deserted wife and child to go back to Germany. Willie grew up to be a good-looking lad with a slight brogue and not much luck. His worst luck, he said last week, was his name...
...royal entertainment for President and Mme Albert Lebrun in London's India Office fortnight ago, one of the entertainers (the saucy French actor, Sacha Guitry, who has often taken the parts of famous court intriguers) stepped up to Queen Elizabeth and murmured in a low voice, "I have a favor to ask of Your Majesty. I should be very grateful if you would persuade M. Lebrun to run for President again." The Queen said she would do what she could...
...dust since Berenice Abbott photographed it in May 1938, is the almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
...world's a stage," says Elizabeth Bowen, "there must be some wonderful parts." The tragedy of John Charles Frémont was not that he could not fill the roles, or that he did not enjoy them; he had all the equipment of a leading actor, better sets and a better leading lady than most. But he invariably missed his cues. He was born too early and died too late, married too young and learned too easily, succeeded too soon and then waited too long. Frémont, as he appears in Allan Nevins' biography, had no sense...
...with Candida, she reveled in mediocre plays (The Green Hat, The Age of Innocence, Dishonored Lady) with fat, showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...