Word: nuptials
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...room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem is then posed as to whether the girl could live happily with...
...tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...
...royal wedding seems ever quite complete without a bomb, and a bomb there was, last week, for Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Sweden's grave and lovely Princess Martha. In placing such royal nuptial dynamite-this time a whole kilogram-the usual thing is to plant it in the storied castle where the Prince and Princess expect to make their home. Therefore, last week experienced Norwegian police searched and searched every nook and cranny in and about Castle Oskarshal, until they found and nullified the nuptial bomb...
...when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall, in a palace blazing with made-in-Sweden light bulbs, the preliminary, pre-nuptial ball was given by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce Crown Prince Olaf. This time he came openly and gaily, not as he clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with his hat turned down, his coat turned...
Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples...