Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice in Manhattan and London, returned to Manhattan for Meteor, did Maxwell Anderson's turgid Elizabeth the Queen, then swung into the highly successful Reunion in Vienna. Following the road tour of Reunion in Vienna, the Lunts parted for a time from the Theatre Guild...
...Queen Mary docked in Manhattan, reporters clamored around Ernest Aldrich Simpson, divorced husband of the Duchess of Windsor, quizzing him about the Duchess and about whether he intended to remarry. Said Mr. Simpson: "Oh, let's have another drink...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from her prototype's journal, from letters. In the picture she accurately mispronounces her consort's German, Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) accurately mispronounces the Queen's English, and Abraham Lincoln (Percy Parsons), jammed into a sequence with Old Glory to keep U. S. patriots happy and near RKO box-offices, accurately pronounces American...
...first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless C's above high C. Among high coloraturas...