Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue), 85,000-ton Cunarder launched at Clydebank, Scotland. Speaker: Queen Elizabeth...
...centuries ago Catherine the Great of Russia had a 952-piece set of Wedgwood pottery. Today Queen Elizabeth II of England still sips her morning tea from Wedgwood. Added evidence that Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. keeps pace with the times was last week's laying of a cornerstone for a new hyperefficient, modern electric kiln outside Hanley, England...
Executive director is Mrs. Elizabeth Ames, a dynamic, partly deaf, pleasant-featured puritan, now in her early 40s, who combines the social talents of a worldly hostess with the shrewdness of a corporation executive. Yaddo is something like a swanky monastery. Most guests sleep in The Mansion. Working quarters are private studios hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen...
...member of it (Fred MacMurray) works. Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) does not work, not having the knack. He is idle and lazy, with no thrift, energy or regard for the value of money; he drinks, philanders, plays the horses, comes to an only temporary good end. When Mrs. Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing, he takes up the hardly more stable trade of singing in night clubs. Sing You Sinners is thus no preachment for the typically American virtues, but it is tolerable comedy, jigging playfully from farce to melodrama like a kite...