Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week's exhibition was the fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also...
...Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King who, as played by Roland Young, is an elegantly frowzy little monarch with no regal pretensions beyond that of giggling quietly at his own wisecracks. Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed for failing to salute her. The King's marriage causes his subjects to denounce him as a buffoon, but they do not become really incensed until the christening of the heir to the throne, a ceremony for which the Prime Minister tries to supply the proper...
...father was an ardent National Guardsman and at one time among the four or five crack rifle shots in the entire country. When I was a child the house was filled with gold and silver medals as tokens of this prowess. And I, his son, am a fanatical pacifist and have never so much as fired a gun in my life...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Adams Train Embree, daughter of Author Arthur Train (the Mr. Tutt series, His Children's Children, many a famed crime novel); and Col. Boris Samsonov, onetime Russian Imperial guardsman; at the Russian church of St. Serge, Paris...
Irish Guardsmen at the Tower bought a big bag of what rooks like. Pompous in his red coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...