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...coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering Lion of Judah, the reason is that he profoundly understands his people. But, in their private apartments, the Empress Menen takes dictation and pounds a typewriter, thereby assisting the Emperor to turn out a newspaper complimented some years ago by the London Times for its "powerful and incisive" editorials...
Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his resourceful consort and coruler, Empress Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME...
...moans. A dozen great ships inbound from Europe and the Caribbean, and scores of lesser liners, hove to rather than try to make port. The Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing...
...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 of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their crack Prussians into France...
...Indecent and immoral and unfit for public entertainment" were 36 "Class C" pictures including Affairs of a Gentleman, The Affairs of Cellini, Born to Be Bad, Catherine the Great, Dr. Monica, The Firebird, The Girl from Missouri, Little Man What Now, Madame du Barry, Nona, The Scarlet Empress, Of Human Bondage, One More River...