Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family. Inside ancient Christiansborg Palace, in a ceremony devoid of pomp but charged with emotion, the King ceremoniously opened the new Parliament convened by Premier Vilhelm Buhl. More than once his voice almost broke...
...shifts roles between a lazy deputy sheriff of Calliboga and "The Ruler of the Queen's Navee," but he plays only Bill Robinson--the man with the magic feet and the friendly voice and the glorious smile. Whether he's just plain tap dancing, or humming "I Am the Monarch of the Sea," or imitating a 1902 waltz, he steps the show. Long doesn't have too much to do in the play. He concentrates on his own special variety of modern dancing--the slinky gesture and the ecstatic leap that made him famous as Sportin' Life in "Porgy...
Reputedly one of the richest men in the U.S., his name does not even appear in Who's Who. He keeps oak-paneled, antique-furnished offices in New York, Chicago, Hollywood, Cleveland, Dallas, San Francisco, London. As president of the Music Corp. of America, he is absolute monarch over the careers of scores of celebrated radio and cinema stars. Together with the A.F. of M.'s James ("Little Caesar") Petrillo and Music Publisher Jack Robbins, he is "the supreme court of popular music." He is a small, greying man, 49, with a soft voice and meticulous manners...
...moistens him thoroughly with champagne, subjects him to a dazzling blitzkrieg of carnivorous kisses, and turns him into a hopelessly bemused boudoir-poodle. His jealous fiancee (Anne Baxter), some further conspiracies and, ultimately, his own self-respect, bring the young man to his senses, and force the man-eating monarch to start her routine all over, this time on the French Ambassador (Vincent Price...
...slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused at hearing an anointed monarch bawl "Shut up"-which is good for one smile, or perhaps two, but begins, after a few reels, to lose its bouquet...