Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth Stearns, as the master's wife, is excellently aged and numb, but probably a bit overdone, a bit zombiesque. James Spiegler, as Doctor Herdal, can be correct, but usually overuses his face muscles. Mark Mirsky, as an architect displaced by the master, nearly gets away with a very mannerized portrait of a dying man. Daniel Selznick, although occasionally over-petulant and childish, is generally most persuasive, and honest and successful. Jill Welden is right as a bookkeeper...
...coverage ran surprisingly smoothly. Reporters twitted each other about drawing for places in a pool of "pantry peepers" who peeked at the royal dinner in Ottawa's Government House. But for the first time in Canada a reigning British monarch held a reception for the press, and when Elizabeth and Philip held another in Washington, British newsmen skulking unhappily in the corners wondered whether it could ever happen in London...
...Royal Soap Opera." Timed for the visit, major articles reflecting British criticism of the monarchy broke in the Satevepost ("Does England Really Need a Queen?") and Look (a tired rehash called "Queen Elizabeth . . . Her Poor Public Relations"). The Satevepost (that "notoriously conformist family magazine," pouted London's New Statesman) stirred up a stew in the British press, notably for its author, former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished...
...chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when they sit down to write it, find they have nothing .to write about." But with the vigor that Elizabeth admired, they wrote it just the same, and wrote it, and wrote it again...
...Overzealous officials carried the ball more than the players as Maryland and North Carolina lazed through the first quarters of their game before the royal visitors, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Then the Maryland boys remembered their duty as hosts, put on an impressive show to upset the Tarheels...