Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked to name the first Emperor that pops to mind, readers of Negro newsorgans are apt to answer not with silky-bearded Emperor George I* of India but with kinky-haired Emperor Haile Selassie I of Abyssinia, the last independent native monarchy in Africa. Last week Negroes were pained and shocked by the callous indifference of most whites to Abyssinia's present life-&-death crisis. Mourned Baltimore's Afro-American, "Even enlightened Americans like Walter Lippmann approve the attempt of Italy to steal Abyssinia's lands, on the theory that it is better to pacify Mussolini...
What the buyer wants, K. Mori & Co. feel, is a fountain pen so good that it will inspire awe. Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...
...Night Is Young (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This pallid operetta deals heavily with a princeling's love for a commoner. The Austrian emperor's nephew and heir (Ramon Novarro) is enamored of a big-eyed, winsome ballet dancer (Evelyn Laye), hired to cover his dalliance with a countess. Duty demands that he marry a princess and in the end he does so but not before he and the dancer spend an apparently comfortable night on top of a Ferris wheel...
Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter...
...will be its unhappy heir, will suffer from it. . . . You have destroyed the promise of '48, Louis, not only in France, but the world over; and you have destroyed a great deal more than that. . . . You are liberal-minded, and will destroy liberalism; for, as a professedly liberal emperor, smiling and amiable, you will establish yourself as a tyrant, in order to keep yourself firmly seated in the saddle. . . . You, a man who hates bloodshed, will sow the seeds of bloodshed. . . . You are not a man to be envied . . . for your good fortune...