Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This-week the Fine Arts presents "The Merry Monarch," a whimsical tale of the mythical Kingdom of Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
...patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom, he sets out upon the mighty, storm-tossed waters...
...considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
...Since the King is in hereditary possession of the Crown Lands, since their enormous revenues are turned over to the Exchequer, and since His Majesty receives from the Exchequer only a fraction of this sum, the Kingdom has technically made itself an expense to the King, a parasite upon the royal purse...
Leopold was a Coburg, son of Belgium's Leopold I, who was the uncle of Britain's Victoria. Starting with practically nothing, the Coburgs prospered mightily during the 19th Century. A go-getting son of a go-getting father, Leopold II regarded his little kingdom as a cage, and he looked to business as a field for the absorption of his surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium...