Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as a starter for her Coronation trousseau, royal Elizabeth ordered 26 frocks and evening cloaks from Norman Hartnell, Ltd., then stepped out with King George VI to the first play they have "done" since His Majesty's accession: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, a slick crook play which had its Manhattan premiere last week...
...Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg. Highlight of his journey is the day he spends at his home town of Omsk where he is taken prisoner and where his mother (Fay Bainter) and a girl (Elizabeth Allan), whom he has gallantly been escorting along the way, are present when Ogareff has his eyes roasted. The roasting produces no bad effects because Ogareff's mistress (Margot Grahame), who has fallen in love with the courier while shadowing him, bribes the executioner to do it inefficiently. Nonetheless...
...confused with Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails...
...those who regard Elizabeth Bergner as the answer to a moviegoer's prayer, the revival of "Catherine the Great," at the Fine Arts will hold great appeal. Miss Bergner portrays the Empress Catherine II of Russia amid flocks of befrilled and bewigged gentlemen, vainly attempting to rule an empire while her mad husband philanders and rages...
...King has a natural candor matching that of the new Queen. About six years after his marriage he said as Duke of York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted...