Word: maharanis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress Ouspenskaya stole the picture. As the barefooted but regal Maharani of The Rains Came, she does it again...
...Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...
Lest her high Indian caste be profaned by any male eyes glimpsing her while she went shopping in London, the Maharani of Jaipur, on hand for the Coronation, emerged from her hotel at 6 a.m., drove off in an automobile with frosted windows for a quick tour of London stores whose female clerks had been specially ordered to appear early...
...Holkar, Maharani of Indore, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since she married the rich ex-Maharajah in Bombay four years ago. Traveling through Canada to escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her mother and her grandfather who is seriously ill. Manhattan ship reporters speedily pierced the Maharani's incognito (her name was not on the passenger list) and, to the indescribable horror of the munshi, proceeded to ask if it were not true that her husband was dissatisfied with her because...