Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal fiancee (Gail Russell), armed with a movie camera. The challenge is impressive, but Sabu meets it by scuttling about at night releasing the animals the prince has captured by day. This lands him in a peck of trouble with the prince and a pallid little flirtation with the princess. Meanwhile, taking a cue from Gail's amateur camera work, the picture provides some good professional close-ups of unusual birds, beasts, and reptiles at work and at play...
...great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
After diligent rehearsal under the supervision of U.S. Comedian Danny Kaye, a royal family favorite, the eight young Mayfair belles staged a spirited cancan* complete with panty-revealing finale. The Douglas' 250-odd guests roared with approval and demanded an encore. Two days later the Daily Express headlined: PRINCESS MARGARET DOES THE CANCAN. British tongues clucked disapproval...
...most popular new exhibition in London last week was at the stodgy old Royal Society of Arts. Strictly for the hot weather, the society had assembled 162 cartoons and sketches, by 50 artists, chosen to reflect the British sense of humor. Princess Elizabeth, in cool green and white, gave the show a royal launching with a tour of inspection that covered a century and a half of evidence...
Most spectators, including Princess Elizabeth, got their biggest chuckles from Rube Goldbergish efforts like W. Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week...