Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because her predecessors were ladies of considerable theatrical importance, May Etheridge was widely hailed as "the first chorus girl duchess." This was a quibble. She had been a chorus girl since the age of 13, but when she met Lord Edward Fitzgerald she had just become leading lady of Princess Caprice at the Shaftesbury, and he was not yet the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland...
...Wales, Corgis have been bred for centuries as all-round farm dogs. Lately they have grown fashionable. Eight-year-old Princess Elizabeth has a Corgi which she airs in Hyde Park. At Cruft's show in London, world's biggest, almost 100 Corgis were benched. Two of the three Corgis shown in Manhattan last week were brought from England by Mrs. Lewis Roesler of Great Barrington, Mass. Because one of her specimens had frost-bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best...
Crosby happens to neglect the proper aristocratic spirit as he sings his way into the heart of a Russian Princess at Monte Carlo. Happily, the Princess finds it possible to descend to plebian emotions with comfortable restraint and grace. Possibly this is because she is Kitty Carlisle...
Lederer is not a crooner fulfilling his whims, but an illegal immigrant in New York City; Ginger Rogers is not a Princess of Russia but only a Mistress of a Good Heart, which she uses frequently. Their romance rises and declines in a New York tenement until it becomes so complicated that the Police Department has to be whipped into effective action. While the drab parts drag, the humorous situations provoke smiles if not a chuckle...
...This pallid operetta deals heavily with a princeling's love for a commoner. The Austrian emperor's nephew and heir (Ramon Novarro) is enamored of a big-eyed, winsome ballet dancer (Evelyn Laye), hired to cover his dalliance with a countess. Duty demands that he marry a princess and in the end he does so but not before he and the dancer spend an apparently comfortable night on top of a Ferris wheel...