Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime minister of Moldavia is negotiating a treaty with the fat King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive...
...this has been done a thousand times before; generally, however, with boots, spurs, duels, serious passions. The Command Performance is modern romance, feathery, sophisticated. The queen smokes cigarets; the King of Wallachia abuses his wife, as does Lord Trench in The High Road; the actor, played well by Ian Keith, kisses the queen's hand in farewell and then pats it with affection; the prince, played less well by Ian Keith, sets off for the U. S. to make his living, one suspects, in a night club...
Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...
...been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay. But she eludes them all with her impertinent patter?"a few figs from thistles"?and, in more serious vein, with her virile poetry culminating in the lyric drama which sang itself to Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchman, produced sensationally at the Metropolitan...
...active political season at Harvard will be launched definitely this week with a rally and parade sponsored by the Harvard King George for President Club. According to "Number Ten," leader of the organization, when interviewed in the club's offices in Hollis 16, the motive spirit of this group of political enthusiasts is not anglomania, but a desire to give the American people what they really want in a president. "We have no need of circumlocution in our platform," stated the chief. "For instance, we promise an amalgamation of the United States and Canada, free spirits for all, tariff protection...