Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearest neighbor, biggest customer, least troublesome friend of the U. S. is Canada. Even so, to win Canada a mention on the front page of U. S. papers, a honeymooning princess has to have her jewels stolen in a Canadian hotel or Canada's Prime Minister has to call officially in Washington. Last week both occurred. The $7,500 jewels stolen from Princess Maria of Bourbon-Sicily, bride of Prince Juan of Spain, held press attention until the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King actually stood on the White House doormat, ate from the White House dishes, slept...
...last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline up from 85? per gal. to $1.10 last week, Italy's mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto combined patriotism with the renowned thrift of his Royal Family by announcing that he and the Crown Princess will hereafter use not more than two of their motor cars. An English governess who has cared for any number of Italian royal infants and who had settled down in the Palace for life was hinting in Rome last week that she is now "willing to accept a situation with...
...Cleveland Artur Rodzinski thrust his baton into the air last week, scurried through the sparkling overture to Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and the curtain was up on a performance made memorable by Soprano Lotte Lehmann as the wistful, aging Princess...
...Angeles, Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn and Princess Natalie Paley worked on a scene for Sylvia Scarlett in which Miss Hepburn was required to save the Princess from a raging sea. Cinemactress Hepburn rescued Princess Paley according to the script but not until she had been so severely buffeted about by waves that she herself had to be given emergency treatment by coworkers. Shrewd RKO cameramen quickly photographed the scene. RKO publicists were pleased when news agencies gave out photographs of fat Director George Cukor bringing Miss Hepburn a tumbler of whiskey...
...kingdom of Hart & Porter, the King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...