Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...
...Emperor's London destination was No. 5 Princes Gate, which he will share with the Ethiopian legation. Facing Hyde Park, this 27-room house is hard by the Persian and Afghanistan legations. Down the street, in case of trouble, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Royal Horse Guards. Last week Ethiopian Princess Asfa Yilma redecorated the Emperor's London hide out, the drawing room in pastel pink, the dining room in grey, the offices in primrose...
...great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria with the romantic Elizabeth of Bavaria. Miss Moore is not in quite the best of voice but the picture has a very pleasant lilt and benefits muchly by the presence of the admirable Walter Connolly...
...biographers, without concealing their dislike, try to give the devil his due. Heiden: "Everything that Hitler says in his book about propaganda is masterly. . . . For a few hour? [at a time] he is really a remarkable schoolbook hero: cynical as Frederick the Great, brutal as Napoleon, kindly as the Emperor Joseph." Olden: "If greatness can exist . . . in demagogy, then Hitler is a great man. . . . Hitler's way of speaking is an elemental phenomenon, one of Nature's marvels...
Friday Evening, May 22 Roxbry Latin School Night French Military MarchSaint-Saens *Academic Festival Overture Brahms *"Traumerel" Schumano Fantasia, "Samson and Dellish" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti *Valse Triste Sibellus *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Roberts" Kern *"Emperor" Waltzes Strausa *"Thunder and Lightning," Polka Strauss...