Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your gossipy footnote on Tjarda [van Starkenborgh] and his driver, on his visit to Queen Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded for his war services with one of the most important appointments in The Netherlands Kingdom, the post of Ambassador to France...
...France, Marga escaped from the tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue and flirtation. Emir...
Agatha Christie promptly begged to differ, reported that "we still have some tricks to play," cooed: "My own experience is that detective stories are being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
...Covent Garden Opera Co. opened its first opera season shortly before Christmas-not with an opera but with a 255-year-old musical revue, The Fairy Queen. In 1692 Composer Henry Purcell and an anonymous playwright dashed off a travesty on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its original seven hours now whittled down to three, The Fairy Queen was a lavish, confusing show full of dancers, coloratura arias, drunken comics and a Chinese grand finale. To put it on, Covent Garden had to call in its Sadler's Wells Co. and eight professional actors...
...Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...