Word: queen
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...first thing you notice in Hollywood," reported British Cinemactress Ann Todd, now back home, ". . . is that you're tremendously important." She had been treated like a queen, she told the London Daily Express, but "never think they love you, because they don't." Cooperation? "If you don't surrender your whole life, including your husband, children, home and private thoughts," recalled Miss Todd, "they will say: 'Miss Todd, you're not being cooperative...
...Monte Carlo, between matches, the tawny-eyed queen of U.S. amateur tennis got her first hint of trouble back home. The rulers of amateur tennis wanted to know whether Pauline Betz had turned pro. She ignored their cable, went back on court and proceeded to lose unexpectedly to Rumania's Magda Rurak. Pauline did not alibi; she said offhandedly: "Maybe I brought a little happiness to Rumania...
Announcement of a "Jubilee Queen" will be one of the features of the Saturday formal. A group of judges, to be announced by the committee, will handle the choosing of the fortunate miss...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
Died. Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 85, fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...