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Last week 52 nationalist agitators were jailed. Unjailed leaders announced that they were drafting a "white paper" to prove that the Bey had never collaborated that he had been illegally deposed: since he is a legitimate monarch, the Bey can be deposed "only...
King Gustaf of Sweden, history's most interminable tennist, finally had to give up. While prepping for a tournament, the 88-year-old monarch collapsed. His physician said that the royal heart had suffered a "certain weakening...
...Hollywood forbearance. In the place of love under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film, but Director Louis Lighton and his star, Rex Harrison, manage to carry it off with ease and maturity...
Harrison, though new to American films, has made an enviable record in Hitchcok's British ventures and the recent "Blithe Spirit." His portrayal of the King is fascinating. Alternating between rugged defense of His Divine Right and a genuine desire to westernize his backward land, the monarch enters a conflict of wits with the schoolmarm who cannot countenance some of the bizarre practices that are placed beyond "progress...
George VI of England became the first British monarch to crash Chicago-published Who's Who in America. Among 8,918 other newcomers to the 1946-47 edition: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Chiang Kaishek, Charles de Gaulle. Longest entry: International Business Machines Corp. President Thomas J. Watson's 155 lines, an alltime record. Baby of the book: nine-year-old Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien. Missing: many generals and admirals, who had had two editions (1942-45) of glory...