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THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp.) -Harold Lamb-Doubleday...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...
...evenings, they were "typically Viennese, very charming." First, there was a performance of The Marriage of Figaro "in the little theater in the winter palace which had been built by the Emperor,"*and it was "beautifully done, exquisitely done. And afterwards, we met the artists and had supper with them...
...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...
...delicate art of Japanese lantern-making, in which the ladies opposite are engaged, owes its worldwide popularity to Emperor Hirohito's grandfather. In 1878, the artisan city of Gifu presented Emperor Meiji with a particularly beautiful lantern; he was so deeply moved that he resolved to encourage the trade, and by the turn of the century lanterns had become one of Japan's most famed exports...