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Although many U. S. blackamoors like to think that Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah is a member of their race, there is no conclusive ethnological evidence to support that view. The Emperor of Abyssinia, olive-skinned and high-beaked, is best described as an Abyssinian, product of a racial mixture which may or may not include Negro blood...
Since Their Majesties are resting on the rustic outskirts of Eastbourne in preparation for the Jubilee, the Empire heard of them last week only that George V had allowed his hand to be seized and vigorously pumped by "Dusty" Matthews, 86, a village character who approached the King-Emperor as he was strolling on the beach...
...Tosca who was a simple, genuine woman, expertly tender in her scenes with Cavaradossi, wildly furious when she murdered Scarpia, crouched gloatingly over his body. The Scarpia was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and it was his big chance to add another telling impersonation to his Simone Boccanegra and his Emperor Jones. But Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti...
...familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe, returned and was executed. So, 43 years later, was Mexico's Third Emperor, fluffy-whiskered Maximilian. Tragic Maximilian chose Morelia as the site for a summer...
Claudius the God picks up the first-person narrative where /, Claudius dropped it, at Claudius' unwilling coronation as Emperor. Middleaged, ugly, crippled, the despised fool of his family as he had been the butt of his nephew Caligula's court, Claudius had only one desire: to keep out of the limelight, end his days plodding away at his secret historical writing. Furthermore, he was a convinced Republican and thought Emperors a bad thing for Rome. Because his only choice, however, was between the throne and an ignominious death, he sat down in the imperial seat with what grace...