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...characters are a couple of Abbott & Costello-like American sailors (Walter Chiari and Carlo Campanini) who are knocked out by thugs while sightseeing in the Colosseum and dream that they are having all sorts of misadventures in ancient Rome. Among the picture's low-comedy highlights: the voluptuous Empress Poppea (Silvana Pampanini) taking a milk bath that out-DeMilles De-Mille; the sailors engaging in a pocket-billiard contest with Nero (Gino Cervi); gladiators waging a savage football game in the Colosseum with a Grecian urn as a pigskin; a Roman orgy with jitterbugging; a frenzied chariot race...
...Vienna's beloved Maria Jeritza introduced to the Viennese in 1919. The story: an emperor on a hunt sees a white gazelle, and when he throws his spear at her, she turns into a woman. The emperor takes her home and makes her his wife. But the new empress does not cast a shadow, and, uneasily, the emperor realizes that his bewitching wife is not really human. By the time Soprano Steber got her shadow (by learning human compassion), she had earned a full ovation from the opera-loving Viennese...
There is a roomful of drawings and water colors by Ingres which has been called "incomparable." David is represented by a large diagrammatic study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" and by preliminary sketches for the scene of the crowning of the Empress Josephine by Napoleon in December...
...personal staff of six chamberlains, Crown Prince Akihito, 19, sailed from Tokyo on the S.S. President Wilson for his first trip abroad, a six-month journey which will take in the coronation in London. Emperor Hirohito gave his son a bon voyage present of pearl cuff links; the Empress personally packed his wardrobe trunk. Both parents watched the Prince's departure on a palace...
...imperial crown, perfect to the last detail. Alexander was so pleased that he immediately gave a standing order for a surprise egg each Easter. When his son Nicholas II came to the throne, the order was doubled: one egg for the Czarina, one for the aging Dowager Empress. The results: some 55 exquisite imperial eggs-plus scores of lesser eggs and an array of magnificent necklaces, enameled clocks and jewel-studded cigarette cases that lifted the House of Fabergé to the pinnacle of Europe's jewelry craft, and brought its master a reputation second only to that...