Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it was midsummer, Frank Bacon was playing Lightnin' to jammed houses, Fay Bainter was filling standing room in East Is West, something called Nightie Night was opening that very evening at the Princess, and eleven other shows were doing adequate hot-weather box office. At 8:20 p.m. word was flashed along Broadway, with Broadway's customary flair for the spectacular, that "Lightnin' has struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home...
Dennis Stoll, U. S.-hating young British composer, received permission from Queen Elizabeth to dedicate to Princess Margaret Rose a suite for strings and harp. The four movements are entitled: To Her Hands in Prayer, To Her Feet in Dance, To Her Heart in Beauty, To Her Infinite Variety...
...nine Christopher is accused of trying to assassinate the infant Princess Victoria. The real gunmen are two Cumberland spies, one of them Christopher's father. Christopher runs away, is found by a peasant who sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother...
While a German guardsman, Christopher learns for the first time that his mother was a princess. After that he cannot turn around without hearing about the dirty Hanovers. An actress who takes a fancy to him turns out to be his first love, the slum girl. But when he wants to marry her, she turns him away with a story about her past that is almost as bad as the ones he has been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece...
...knocked a bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered completely, he began unaccountably asking the why of things, had his first intimate talk with his handsome, radical-minded son Max, who immediately egged his father on to put the Cabinet ministers in their place. Princess Charlotte, quick-witted and unconventional like her brother, also went to work on King John. As the result of this radical coaching the King soon had his ministers half crazy with alarm. When they tried to maneuver an election to hamstring the power of the church, the King sided with...