Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never was a story more Dutch than that last week of "The Other Juliana." It had been decided by Her Majesty's Government that, as a mark of respect to Crown Princess Juliana, she and her bridegroom would be the only persons married in The Netherlands on their wedding day. The attention of Her Majesty's Government was then drawn to that buxom coincidence, the Dutch female who was born on the same day and at approximately the same moment as H. R. H. Juliana, the honest wench Petronella van der Meer...
...appeared that this person was engaged to marry the honest vegetable peddler Martinus van Stijn and wished to do so on the day of the Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday...
...concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while you are married. Your marriage would never have been noticed had it not been celebrated on the same day as that of our Crown Princess. You are not of the least importance. I offer my congratulations and good wishes...
...actors over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...
ANTON CHEKHOV-Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova-Columbia Uni-versity Press...