Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later days, processions, gowns, and celebrations of "the four Georges," Queen Victoria, and King Edward VII, are illustrated by contemporary drawings and reports. Color pictures of the royal family, insignia, gowns, and coach at the coronation of the late George V, are also shown...
...Coronation events today to be broadcast from London by both the Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Corporation over their local Boston stations. This morning both chains will go on the air at approximately 5 o'clock with the first event of the day, the departure of the Queen Mother Mary from her Marlborough House...
...Warped to its tremendous pier at Southampton last week was the Queen Mary, bearing the first contingent of U. S. visitors to the Coronation, prominent among them James Watson Gerard of the official U. S. delegation. The U. S. press, feeling knee breeches unmanly except for sliding bases or playing golf, was in a characteristic, hayseedy dither over whether Special Envoy Gerard would wear court dress. Mr. Gerard, Wartime Minister to Germany, opined that he would...
...Baiser de la Fee (The Fairy's Kiss) tells how a baby is kissed by the Queen of the Fairies and parted from his mother. He grows into a handsome young man and falls in love. The Fairy reappears, kisses him again, and he follows her into the sea. Stravinsky meant the kiss to symbolize the bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when the Fairy...
Birthday. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and qf Strathearn, Earl of Sussex, only surviving son of Queen Victoria of England; great uncle of King George VI: 87; at Bournemouth, England...