Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the 64th session of the Diet, opened by Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo this week, faced the most colossal public debt ever incurred by Japan: nearly seven billion yen ($3,500,000,000 at par, $1,400,000,000 at current exchange...
...proud old Theater an der Wien last week a story was enacted which every good Viennese knows: the courtship of young Emperor Franz Josef and Elizabeth, 16-year-old, harum-scarum daughter of Bavaria's Duke Max. Elizabeth, whose nickname was Sissy, was the favorite of her father who roved the forests with woodcutter friends, played the zither, behaved more like a peasant than a duke. Sissy's shrewish mother intended the elder daughter Helene to be Franz Josef's wife. Sissy went along with them when the Bavarian duchess took Helene to Ischl to meet...
...good number of the settings for the Theatre Guild. His series of sketches for the "Red General" a play concerning the Russian Revolution, have a keen sense of theatricality and unusual atmospheric effects. It is interesting to note that he is now at work on settings for "The Emperor Jones" of Eugene O'Neill, which is to be produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company this winter. The sketch for the Throne Room scene from this play is included in the exhibition...
Other exhibits are Norman-Bel Goddes' works for the "Divine Comedy," and Jo Mielziener's designs for "Emperor Jones." Leo Simonson '09, Aliene Burnstein, and Donald Owenslager are also represented...
...Blount De Mille directed his first cinema, The Squaw Man, 19 years ago. Since then he has directed 56 more. A director of the old school, he has retained his taste for grandiloquent language, pretentious sets, casts of 1,000 or more. This picture, a vast conglomeration about the Emperor Nero, Christian martyrs, Roman palaces, catacombs, lions yapping in the Circus, is a religious spectacle, like The King of Kings and The Ten Commandments, of the type De Mille likes best. Before starting it he said he had been waiting for ten years for the cinema to become a vehicle...